The Augusta Jr. Players is gearing up to perform “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges”.During the height of the Civil Rights ...
When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African ...
On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J ... Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop ...
Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate ... race and the nation. The event will begin at 6 p.m. at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The evening’s program ...
“Ruby Bridges in the American psyche is a symbol, but she’s also a person,” Portlock said. “She’s a 6-year-old girl, an actual human with a family, and I think the stories of people like ...
In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...
On Saturday, people, young and old, gathered at the Lucy C. Laney Memorial Stadium to pay tribute to Ruby Bridges’ 66-year ...
The year is 1960. A shy, smart 6-year-old named Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American student to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in New Orleans. Escorted to class by U.S ...
I remember looking into the classroom, and all I saw were empty desks, and I thought, ‘Well, my mom brought me to school too ...