Ruby Bridges will return to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis for her eighth annual reading festival.

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 ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

“For Whites Only” and “For Colored Only.” The signs were reportedly posted above water fountains and inside the cafeteria. A ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...

Sacramento-area students walked to their school campuses in honor of Ruby Bridges, who as a young girl in November 1960 was the first African-American student to enroll in a recently desegregated ...

At just six years old, Bridges made history by integrating William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, facing mobs and ...

Civil rights icon to engage young readers and spotlight her latest book on justice, education, and youth empowermentMemphis, ...