Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Television programming from 1999 features the story of Ruby Bridges. In this lesson, students will hear from a primary source, Ruby Bridges, as she ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader ...

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 ...

KSHB 41 reporter Alyssa Jackson has covered Frank Rushton Elementary School's push for Ruby Bridges to come to Kansas and have a commemorative day in her honor. Share your story idea with Alyssa.

On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges began her first day of school at William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. What's historic about this day is that she was flanked by U.S. federal marshals ...

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 ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...