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About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, waving signs and cheering as passing cars honked in support. Across Eugene and ...
Monterey Park Elementary School in Salinas participated in Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, celebrating the courage of Ruby ...
Sacramento-area students walked to their school campuses in honor of Ruby Bridges, who as a young girl in November 1960 was the first African-American student to enroll in a recently desegregated ...
Ruby Bridges will return to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis for her eighth annual reading festival.
In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...
Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ...
In 2018, fifth grade students in the South San Francisco Unified School District asked legislators to make Nov. 14 Ruby Bridges Day. The California State Senate agreed and proclaimed the day Ruby ...
At just six years old, Bridges made history by integrating William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, facing mobs and ...