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

Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

Later this month, she’ll play the lead in “Look Forward,” the story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate the Louisiana school system in 1960. Prime Stage Theatre will stage ...

Ruby Bridges’ quotes reflect her resilience ... For nearly a year, she was taught in a vacant classroom by her teacher, ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... Encouraged by her teacher, a white woman from the North named Barbara Henry, and her mother Lucille ...

All but one teacher — Barbara Henry — refused to ... Prime Stage Theatre’s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan. 26 at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first ... White parents removed their children in protest; teachers refused to teach at the school. For the entire year, Bridges was the only ...

On Saturday, people, young and old, gathered at the Lucy C. Laney Memorial Stadium to pay tribute to Ruby Bridges’ 66-year ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Hundreds of people gathered at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium to celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights trailblazer Martin Luther King Jr. “We come together to ...