In the battle for desegregation, six-year-old Ruby Bridges was caught in the middle as the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, a formerly ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... 1960, Bridges ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in ... Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges ... attend William Frantz Elementary School ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to ... Service escorted Bridges and her mother into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. It was a day that Bridges will never ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school. Now she teaches children ... occur in Bridges' second year of attending William Frantz Elementary, when she no longer had to be ...

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby ... Bridges became the first African American child ...