Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary ...

Author and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges is slamming book banners’ attempts to censor her work, reiterating how children are the ones most drawn to her powerful story. Bridges’ story marked an ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...

NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - South Florida students are taking part in the annual Walk to School Day to honor the courageous and historic act Ruby Bridge made by being the first African ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

VERY SPECIAL EVENT. THEY GOT PLACES FOR YOU 65 YEARS TO THE DAY AFTER A SIX YEAR OLD GIRL WALKED INTO A SCHOOL IN NEW ORLEANS AND BECAME THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT TO INTEGRATE AN ALL WHITE SCHOOL IN THE ...

Two biographical picture books introduce children to the life stories of writer Toni Morrison and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. First,... Picture book biographies introduce children to Toni ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges about her friend, Pulitzer Prize winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who died on June 4 at 97.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her "best ...