Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep South.

Ruby Bridges, a fixture of the American civil rights movement ... several autobiographical books and advocates against book banning. All of her own books have been banned at one time or another, she said. As a child, she looked to history books for ...

During the height of the Civil Rights Movement and living in a post-Brown v. Board of Education world, Bridges was among more than 100 students to volunteer to be the first Black children to integrate white schools. Though when the day came, Ruby would become known for walking her path alone.

School integration expanded following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in schools.