The pandemic supercharged summer school’s transformation from remedial academics to learning plus fun — and now there’s no ...

Children from all over the Mid-South got a chance to get their hands on free books just in time for the Summer Break.

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting its eighth Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 17, featuring celebrated civil rights icon and ...

Dorothy Prevost, mother of civil rights pioneer Tessie Prevost-Williams, will be honored Wednesday at the Louisiana Capitol for her role in advancing social justice.

A year after becoming the first Black child to integrate William Frantz Elementary School, a young Ruby Bridges (b. 1954) approaches second grade with anticipation, the crowds and U.S. Marshals ...

Principal Adriene Lanier addressed the incident in a letter to parents on April 23, saying it involved a social studies lesson on civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, WSB-TV reported.

A Rockdale County School District spokesperson said the signs were a part of a history lesson about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to desegregate an all-white public school in the South.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State Long Beach on Wednesday, March 19.

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal marshals.

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...