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 ...

Bridges is also the author of four books, some of which have been targeted by critics an inappropriate for schools. Last year, a Florida school district briefly banned the Disney movie “Ruby ...

With Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate, an increase in book bans is a serious threat.