Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges details her friendship with retired teacher Barbara Henry, who is the subject of her new children's book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher." ...

Bridges has authored a picture book to explain that long-ago experience to the youngest readers. (AP Photo/File) RIGHT: Fort Wayne preschool student portrays the civil rights icon 63 years later.

A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie’s use of slurs and ...

Ruby Bridges was the first Black American to integrate an elementary school in the South.

VISIBLE GEM This has been a bittersweet month for Ruby Bridges, the civil rights icon who was the first Black student to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. On Nov. 10, four days before ...

Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History” “The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it’s happening in the world.” ...

This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...

Students gathered at San Jose City Hall Thursday morning as part of Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, a national commemoration of the historic Civil Rights moment.

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges reflects on the day she made history by attending a newly desegregated Louisiana school in 1960.