At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in ... Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried ...

Later this month, she’ll play the lead in “Look Forward,” the story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate the Louisiana school ... class at William Frantz Elementary.

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... 1960, Bridges ...

I remember looking into the classroom, and all I saw were empty desks, and I thought, ‘Well, my mom brought me to school too ...

In the battle for desegregation, six-year-old Ruby Bridges was caught in the middle as the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, a formerly ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges ... four members of the U.S. Marshals Service escorted Bridges and her mother into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. It was a day that Bridges will ...

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges ... attend William Frantz Elementary School ...

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby Bridges speak in Spartanburg. The civil rights ...

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby ... Bridges became the first African American child ...