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

During the height of the Civil Rights Movement and living in a post-Brown v. Board of Education world, Bridges was among more ...

This story originally appeared on Kansas Reflector. TOPEKA, Kansas — Ruby Bridges, a civil rights icon known for walking ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded ... Schwanz in a written statement. Bridges said history should be taught the way it happened and that books like hers shouldn't be banned ...

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 ...

and it honors what Ruby Bridges had to go through 64 years ago to further the civil rights movement. Students will also read the children’s book the icon wrote called “I Am Ruby Bridges.” ...

(WIBW) - The black and white pictures in history books can make it seem like civil ... as civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited the Capital City for Walk to School Day. What started as a local ...

Ruby Bridges, a fixture of the American civil rights movement, visited Topeka on Nov. 14, 2024, to commemorate Kansas' second annual Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas ...

“You guys understand that I am from Liberty City. I actually sat in some of the same seats that you guys sit in,” said another. This was the first year of the Ruby Bridges walk here in Liberty ...

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges began her first day of school ... have to have been my father because he shaped me into who I am today.” 42. “Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with ...