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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges remembers the day she desegregated New Orleans school
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep South.
Civil rights parade honors New Orleans school desegregation pioneers
On this day 64 years ago, three six-year-olds, including Etienne, started school at McDonogh 19, while Ruby Bridges began at William Franz.
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visits Kansas to celebrate desegregation
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 Movement and living in a post-Brown v.
10 Folsom Cordova schools to celebrate Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist, by walking to school
On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges walked to school in New Orleans with U.S. Marshals agents after desegregation. Folsom Cordova Unified observes this 64 years later.
Students honor Ruby Bridges on ‘Walk to School Day’
By Kathy Chouteau Sixty-four years ago today, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans and took her place in the history books, becoming the first […]
Ruby Bridges, civil rights icon, tells Kansas students to reject racist line of thought
Ruby Bridges, a civil rights icon known for walking among the first group of students to desegregate New Orleans public schools in 1960, on Thursday told an auditorium full of Kansas students, “You cannot believe that you can only trust people who look like you.
Havasu Preparatory Academy honors civil rights figure on Ruby Bridges Day
School integration expanded following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed racial segregation in schools.
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New Orleans celebrates 64th anniversary of public school desegregation
YESTERDAY THE CITY CELEBRATED THE 64TH ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION WITH THE NEW ORLEANS FOUR DAY PARADE ... LIKE SO MANY TIMES YOU THINK OF RUBY BRIDGES, BUT TO HEAR THE STORY ...
New Orleans marks with parade the 64th anniversary of 4 little girls integrating city schools
New Orleans marked the 64th anniversary of the day four Black 6-year-old girls integrated New Orleans schools with a parade — ...