Saturday morning the cast of the Augusta Junior Players production of “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges” took a walk to put themselves in her shoes. On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was ...
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 ...
At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.