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.

However, Ruby Bridges became a household name ... She sheds light on her upcoming documentary, “The New Orleans Legacy Project,” which aims to explore the full narrative of all four girls.

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 ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public ...

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 ...