A former Safe Routes to School coordinator says she was fired for wearing a Ruby Bridges t-shirt. In a complaint filed last ...

Beth Schmidt alleges she was fired for wearing a shirt with a painting depicting Ruby Bridges while promoting Ruby Bridges ...

Ruby Bridges was born on Sept. 8, 1954, which coincidentally was the same year in which the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation in public schools. She ...

Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is unbowed, her gaze steady despite the racist graffiti creeping into the frame of the iconic image. The painting — a true-to-life illustration of the fight to integrate New ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her "best ...

CATALINA FOOTHILLS, Ariz. (KGUN) — Manzanita Elementary School in the Foothills joined schools across the country in a special walk to honor civil rights activist Ruby Bridges. The event, now in its ...

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, ...

Everest Elementary marked Ruby Bridges Day with a community walk, celebrating diversity, inclusion and equity in education.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader ...