She remembers the marshals explaining the security protocol to her mother. "Living in New Orleans ... in Robert Coles’ book ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life ... only had a sixth-grade education, and her mother, Lucille Bridges, had an eighth-grade education, she added.

Bridges was one of four Black students ... to some of her aunts and uncles who were around the same age as Ruby,” said her mother Rachel Lavelle. “My aunts and uncles grew up in West Virginia ...

In celebration of the walk Ruby Bridges made as she desegregated ... One example she used was when she was a child and a boy her age said his mother didn't want him playing with her because ...

“She showed me her heart.” Bridges didn’t realize she had to eat PB ... Today, Bridges is a mother and grandmother. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation and has written several books—all aimed ...

Bridges' latest book details her reunion with educator Barbara Henry. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...