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 ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges, whose first day of first grade in 1960 changed the course of history and education, talks about her new children’s book called “I Am Ruby Bridges.” "It's hard for us to talk to about ...

Children’s book publisher Scholastic SCHL announced three forthcoming titles with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. Sixty years ago tomorrow, at the age of six, Bridges integrated New Orleans’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some Tennessee parents oppose “Ruby Bridges Goes to School,” which highlights the first Black child to integrate into a New ...

This Nov. 14 marks 65 years since Ruby Bridges made history by becoming the first Black child to integrate an all-White elementary school in the South. She was just 6 years old when she stepped foot ...