Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, waving signs and ...

Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend integrated schools in the south, is celebrating her 64th birthday this weekend. At just the age of six, Bridges walked into an all-white school on ...

All 6-year-old Ruby Bridges wanted was a friend when she walked into William Frantz Elementary in 1960 as the first Black child to desegregate the New Orleans school, flanked by four federal marshals ...

Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges made history at just six years old. She was the first Black student to attend an all-white school in 1960. Now she’s sharing her inspiring story with young readers ...

elementary school in America’s Deep South. As a 6-year-old first-grader, she was the only black student to enter the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. On Nov. 14, 1960, ...

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.

“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+ ...

A Disney film about Ruby Bridges, who was the only Black student at her elementary school in 1960, has sparked a formal complaint in Florida Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering ...

Sixty years ago, a 6-year-old girl flanked by four tall, white federal marshals went to school, largely unaware of the significance of her steps. Her mother didn't explain before she climbed the ...