Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, waving signs and ...

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 ...

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Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. “On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges?’ And I ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...

Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges made history at just six years old. She was the first Black student to attend an all-white school in 1960. Now she's sharing her inspiring story with young readers ...

A Disney film about Ruby Bridges, who was the only Black student at her elementary school in 1960, has sparked a formal complaint in Florida Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering ...

Deputy U.S. marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November 1960. (AP) Analysis by Philip Bump I had often wondered how Ruby Bridges felt in ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old in 1960 when she became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. She was escorted by four federal ...