News

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J ... Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop ...
In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...
About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges ... recognizing Bridges, who at age 6 attended an all-white school as a young Black girl in 1960.
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 ...
The civil rights icon will read her latest novel, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher," at the festival. Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual ...
she just marched along like a little soldier,” according to a California Senate resolution. In 2018, fifth grade students in the South San Francisco Unified School District asked legislators to make ...