Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Llamas sits down with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at just six years old carried the weight of the civil rights ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ruby Bridges is a Civil Rights Activist with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Speech as an Author. The year with the highest average ...

KSHB 41 reporter Alyssa Jackson has covered Frank Rushton Elementary School's push for Ruby Bridges to come to Kansas and have a commemorative day in her honor. Share your story idea with Alyssa.

As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black-and-white footage of angry white mobs began to play. The images showed the six-year-old Bridges being escorted by U.S.

Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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, ...

AGAIN. NEW DETAILS AT FIVE. CIVIL RIGHTS ICON RUBY BRIDGES MADE A POWERFUL APPEARANCE DURING NEW YORK FASHION WEEK. IN 1960, BRIDGES BECAME THE FIRST OR ONE OF FOUR BLACK CHILDREN TO INTEGRATE SCHOOLS ...

Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to enter a formerly all-White ...

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 ...