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 ...

All 6-year-old Ruby Bridges wanted was a friend when she walked into William Frantz Elementary in 1960 as the first Black child to desegregate the New Orleans school, flanked by four federal marshals ...

Sixty years after Ruby Bridges walked into William Frantz Public School as part of a nascent effort to desegregate New Orleans public schools, students and teachers reenacted the 6-year-old's ...

More than 60 years ago, four young Black girls in Louisiana, known as the New Orleans Four, made history by integrating ...

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 ...

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.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges about her friend, Pulitzer Prize winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who died on June 4 at 97.

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 ...

Ruby Bridges may be widely known as the brave Black child who desegregated an all-white school in the South, but it was her mom, Lucille, who put the decision in motion."Brave, progressive, a champion ...

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges and Scholastic have announced a new three-book publishing program. Scholastic said in a news release that the picture books are first collaboration between ...

"I'm also standing on the shoulders and in the shadows of people who made huge sacrifices for all of us," the civil rights activist and author tells PEOPLE It’s been 60 years this month since Ruby ...

Ruby Bridges may be widely known as the brave Black child who desegregated an all-white school in the South, but it was her mom, Lucille, who put the decision in motion."Brave, progressive, a champion ...