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 ...
A school in Derby honored a civil rights icon Thursday. At the same time, it encouraged kids to get to school safely, for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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He later became a Harvard professor and prolific author of books including The Story of Ruby Bridges. A constant in ... to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts ...
Word In Black “We need an uprising,” says educator and activist Jesse Hagopian. “We need a mass multiracial uprising to challenge those in ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges became the first Black student to attend a formerly all-white school in New Orleans. Angry ...
This story originally appeared on Kansas Reflector. TOPEKA, Kansas — Ruby Bridges, a civil rights icon known for walking ...
While walking to school Thursday morning, Birney Elementary School students learned about the courage of an important civil-rights pioneer: Ruby Bridges ... to Birney. Kids also learn street ...