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 ...

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

On Thursday, students from across Kansas got to experience living history, as civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited the ...

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

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 ...

A school in Derby honored a civil rights icon Thursday. At the same time, it encouraged kids to get to school safely, for ...

Join Lakemont Elementary at 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, November 14 to honor the legacy of Ruby Bridges and her courageous journey ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded ... "Why are we still using books, textbooks that we know are obsolete?" Bridges asked. "Everyone is not represented in those books.

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