Ruby Bridges is an iconic figure in the history of civil rights in America. Born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, ...

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

By Kathy Chouteau Sixty-four years ago today, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New ...

A year after becoming the first Black child to integrate William Frantz Elementary School, a young Ruby Bridges (b ... was “one for the history books,” Bridges is crestfallen to discover ...

Students throughout Kansas honored a special day in history by walking to school. On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges became one ...

The black and white pictures in history books can make it seem like civil rights happened a long time ago but many of the ...

Bridges is also the author of four books, some of which have been targeted by critics an inappropriate for schools. Last year, a Florida school district briefly banned the Disney movie “Ruby ...

He later became a Harvard professor and prolific author of books including The Story of Ruby Bridges. A constant in the photographs taken of her is her immaculate clothing: lovely dresses ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Courage, kindness and bravery are all words used to describe civil rights activist, Ruby Bridges.

Laura Kelly signed a proclamation officially making Thursday Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. Bridges said history should be taught the way it happened and that books like hers shouldn't ...