What’s it like to live Black history? Ruby Bridges has some thoughts. Randi Richardson, TODAY. Updated Fri, February 2, 2024 at 12:37 AM UTC. 8 min read.

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges put on a starched dress and new shoes and walked, accompanied by four U.S. Marshals through a torrent of hate to get to school.

Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual reading festival, held on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v.Board decision.

How Ruby Bridges made school integration history at 6, while racists screamed at her ... Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

Columnist Ed Pratt's granddaughter is learning about what Ruby Bridges went through just to go to school in New Orleans. This Black History Month, he says, everyone should.

The day celebrates the courage of Ruby Bridges, who on Nov. 14, 1960 was the first Black student to attend an all-white elementary school in the deep south. Students at Yellow Springs Schools ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. The civil rights activist, now 69, looks back on what her 6-year-old self accomplished and had to endure.

Ruby Bridges poses next to a cutout of herself at age 6 at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis. She was the first black child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. What's it like to live Black history? Ruby Bridges has some thoughts.