Tom Llamas sits down with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at just six years old carried the weight of the civil rights ...

NEW ORLEANS — A life-size metal figure was unveiled Thursday to mark the historic steps Ruby Bridges took into the William Frantz Elementary School 62 years ago. She was the first black student to ...

COROLLA, N.C. — Ruby Bridges, a famous Civil Rights icon and the first Black student to integrate into a formerly-segregated White school, is signing books in the Outer Banks on Friday. She was just 6 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. “On the plane, everybody’s standing up ...

All 6-year-old Ruby Bridges wanted was a friend when she walked into William Frantz Elementary in 1960 as the first Black child to desegregate the New Orleans school, flanked by four federal marshals ...

On a rainy Nov. 14 morning, Capri Elementary School hosted its first-ever Ruby Bridges Walk-to-School Day. More than 200 students, families, staff and community members walked to the Encinitas school, ...

HOUSTON – Fifty-five years ago, America began integrating its public schools. It was a dangerous time. Desegregation happened because parents, including a grandmother who now lives in Houston, allowed ...

Hundreds of students turned out Tuesday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Eugene and Springfield, recognizing the 6-year-old who attended an all-white school as a young Black girl in 1960. Nov.

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, has died at the age of 86. In 1960, Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as Ruby ...