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 ...

A new Vancouver preschool named for American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges recently opened in central Vancouver. “(The) area, even though it’s so densely populated, is considered an early ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her "best ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader ...

Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

PASSAIC — Two of the city's schools combined efforts and joined a nationwide movement to observe Ruby Bridges Day with a symbolic walk on Tuesday morning. School 20 joined School 21, whose students ...