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 ...

Ron DeSantis, named Bridges’ “I am Ruby Bridges” children’s book as his recommended read of the month for children in grades kindergarten through two. But other works authored by Bridges ...

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 ...