Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A TikToker is sharing the powerful story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black American to integrate an elementary school in the South.

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, waving signs and ...

COROLLA, N.C. — Ruby Bridges, a famous Civil Rights icon and the first Black student to integrate into a formerly-segregated White school, is signing books in the Outer Banks on Friday. She was just 6 ...

On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges desegregated William Frantz Elementary School. “It was a major milestone for not only the history of our public education school system, but also here in ...

Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend integrated schools in the south, is celebrating her 64th birthday this weekend. At just the age of six, Bridges walked into an all-white school on ...

New Bridge Elementary students walk around Liberty Park in Ogden on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, to honor Ruby Bridges, the first African-American student to integrate a grade school in the South. The ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “On the ...

On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges desegregated William Frantz Elementary School. “It was a major milestone for not only the history of our public education school system, but also here in ...