Educators are confronting legislators over public school funding and the threat of seeing the U.S. Department of Education gutted. The Greater Elkhart Chamber of Commerce hosted its March Third House ...

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 ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal marshals.

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

Republicans on the House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have permanently designated Nov. 14 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. Screenshot courtesy of the Kansas Legislature ...

(Forgive me.) The observation that caught my attention was my granddaughter Talia saying to her mom, “Did you know Pop (her name for me) is the same age as Ruby Bridges?” Two things here.

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School so that Ruby would have better educational opportunities than she did Rachel DeSantis is a ...

The process of making the menu was also approved by the Ruby Bridges Foundation, who Dunne said he worked with to ensure the likeness of Bridges was “respectful.” “We just try to support ...