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 ...

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 ...

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 ... would call a poignant story," said Beryl New, panelist and newly elected Kansas State Board of Education member. New said Bridges gave the audience ...

(WIBW) - The black and white pictures in history books can make it ... “And I think Ruby Bridges did something about it, and it was to tell the story.” Another state representative has spent ...

Ruby Bridges ... time telling her story, and she is involved at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. Bridges is also the author of several autobiographical books and advocates against ...

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

I was 6," Bridges said. The Civil Rights Movement ... "The Problem We All Live With," in Robert Coles’ book "The Story of Ruby Bridges" and in the Disney movie "Ruby Bridges." ...