Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep ...
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 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 ...
During the height of the Civil Rights Movement and living in a post-Brown v. Board of Education world, Bridges was among more ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges walked to school in New Orleans with U.S. Marshals agents after desegregation. Folsom Cordova ...
A parade in downtown New Orleans marked the 64th anniversary of the day four Black 6-year-old girls integrated New Orleans ...
On this day 64 years ago, three six-year-olds, including Etienne, started school at McDonogh 19, while Ruby Bridges began at ...
This event honors the historic strides made by Ruby Bridges on Nov. 14, 1960, when the first-grader, just six years old, ...
Today is Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, which commemorates when 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated a New Orleans School in ...