Ruby Bridges is an iconic figure in the history of civil rights in America. Born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, Ruby became, at six years old, the first African American child to ...

Ruby Bridges poses next to a cutout of herself at age 6 at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis. She was the first black child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in ...

How did Ruby Bridges make history? Bridges was born in 1954, the year of the historic Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that desegregated public schools in the United States.

How did Ruby Bridges make history? Bridges was born in 1954, the year of the historic Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court ruling that desegregated public schools in the United States.

Prejudice today: From a jumble of statistics, a dramatic rise in hate and bigotry in NJ Bridges was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year of the court's decision. Her family eventually moved ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. The civil rights activist, now 69, looks back on what her 6-year-old self accomplished and had to endure.

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first grader in November 1960 when she had to be escorted by federal marshals as the first Black student in her all-white public elementary school in New Orleans.

Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same year Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools to integrate with “all deliberate speed.” Six years later, as immortalized by the famous Norman ...

The Ruby Bridges Walk in Liberty City invited parents, students, staff, and community members to march together from Holmes Elementary School to Miami Northwestern Senior High School.

By Carolyn Thompson, The Associated Press . Serena Williams and Ruby Bridges will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame next year, the hall announced on Nov. 16, adding the tennis ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. ... The decisive strikedown of “separate but equal” schooling occurred months before Bridges was born.