The University held the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges ... at her elementary school told her ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend ... four members of the U.S. Marshals Service escorted Bridges and her mother into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.

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

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ... and the photo of those same U.S. Marshals escorting her and her mother to school through a sea of protesters.

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' 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 ...

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 ...

We see her mother and father struggle over the choice ... Prime Stage Theatre’s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan. 26 at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh ...