At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black ...

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 ...

Ruby Cunningham Bridges, 91, left us to go to her Heavenly Home on Saturday, February, 1, 2025. Her family will receive visitors at Heartland Funeral Home in Early, Wednesday, February 5, 2025, from 5 ...

The University held the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who, at the ...

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby Bridges speak in Spartanburg. The civil rights icon ...

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby Bridges speak in Spartanburg. The civil rights ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)– When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary ...

(WRDW/WAGT) - The Augusta Jr. Players is gearing up to perform “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges”. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the 6-year-old was the first Black student to ...

Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story,” written by Natalia Temesgen. The hour-long production gives a compact and compassionate ...

College News Lire Coulter, of Sag Harbor, was named to the dean’s list at the University of Connecticut for the fall 2024 semester. Kayla Stallings, of Sag Harbor, has been named to the dean’s ...

The event also featured a conversation with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960 at just six years old.