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 ...
In celebration of the walk Ruby Bridges made as she desegregated ... should be taught the way it happened and that books like hers shouldn't be banned in schools for telling the truth.
On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ... should be taught the way it happened and that books like hers shouldn't be banned in schools for telling the truth.
Ruby Bridges, a fixture of the American civil ... books and advocates against book banning. All of her own books have been banned at one time or another, she said. As a child, she looked to ...
About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, waving signs and cheering as passing cars honked in support. Across Eugene and ...
While walking to school Thursday morning, Birney Elementary School students learned about the courage of an important civil-rights pioneer: Ruby Bridges. On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges became the first ...