Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about ... History does not get taught the way ...
During the height of the Civil Rights Movement and living in a post-Brown v. Board of Education world, Bridges was among more ...
At the age of 6, Bridges was the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about ... History does not get taught the way ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges walked to school in New Orleans with U.S. Marshals agents after desegregation. Folsom Cordova ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans marked the 64th ... Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Ruby Bridges to school while white mobs opposing desegregation shouted, cursed and threw rocks.
Ruby Bridges became ... me to travel abroad," she said. "It shaped me. I always wanted to live in other places." But her husband, a contractor, "would never leave New Orleans." ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges walked to school in New Orleans ... In 2011, she viewed Norman Rockwell’s “The Problem We All Live With” painting, depicting her walking into the Louisiana ...