and speaker Ruby Bridges made history at just 6 years old as the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana. White parents pulled their kids out of the school ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... for my teacher," Bridges said. "And as you know, teachers really quit their jobs back then because they didn't want to teach Black kids. This one teacher came ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed ... heard the possibilities,” Bridges said, “and I think that she wanted something more for her kids than what she had for ...