Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960.

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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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — KSHB 41 reporter Alyssa Jackson has covered Frank Rushton Elementary School's push for Ruby Bridges to come to Kansas and have a commemorative day in her honor. Share your story ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. “On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges?’ And I ...

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, ...

“The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world.” Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach students ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...