People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

Last year, a Florida school district briefly banned the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” after a parent complained its themes were ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

In the battle for desegregation, six-year-old Ruby Bridges was caught in the middle as the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, a formerly ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school. Now she teaches children to get past racial differences. Although Bridges broke many barriers by attending the school, she endured ...

Portlock is the picture of maternal love and care, but she is deft at showing Lucille’s internal fight between protecting her child and giving ... Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there.

Each year on Nov. 14, the foundation leads Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, an annual day of dialog to inspire students to take part in their own forms of activism. “These pages truly speak to the ...