“The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world.” Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges about her friend, Pulitzer Prize winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who died on June 4 at 97.

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she entered first grade at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, accompanied by U.S. Marshals for her protection. She spent her entire first day — ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Courage, kindness and bravery are all words used to describe civil rights activist, Ruby Bridges. On Thursday, students at Quindaro Elementary followed in her footsteps by ...

NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - South Florida students are taking part in the annual Walk to School Day to honor the courageous and historic act Ruby Bridge made by being the first African ...

On Feb. 4, during the 76ers-Warriors game, the San Francisco team honored civil rights icon Ruby Bridges. This Black History Month, as we honor the work and sacrifices of the generations that came ...

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 having ...