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

But the picture on Thursday spurred a federal civil rights lawsuit from an Oregon public employee, who says she was fired for ...

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

The Trump administration has canceled plans to feature civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges and abolitionist Frederick Douglass on commemorative coins marking the United States' 250th anniversary.

As America’s 250th anniversary commemorative coins begin to circulate, outrage grows over who has been left out. The ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student ...

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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Lucille Bridges next to Norman Rockwell's 1964 painting, "The Problem We All Live With," showing her daughter Ruby, inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. AP NEW ORLEANS — Lucille Bridges, the ...