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Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual reading festival, held on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board decision.

“There has been a systemic erasure of Black history.” Professor Christina Greer discusses the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and efforts to whitewash American history. The ...

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Polycor Inc., the parent company of Rock of Ages in Graniteville, gifted two paintings and one sketch by Norman Rockwell to Shelburne Museum.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges recalls the teacher who changed her life Bridges' latest book details her reunion with educator Barbara Henry.

As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black-and-white footage of angry white mobs began to play. The images showed the six-year-old Bridges being escorted by U.S.

Her walk to the front door of William Frantz Elementary School was commemorated in in Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With, in Robert Coles’ book The Story of Ruby Bridges ...

A civil rights landmark News outlets covering the Ruby Bridges story published numerous photographs at the time. But the Frantz school, and racist reactions to desegregating it, really captured ...

FILE - In this July 20, 2006, file photo, Lucille Bridges poses next to the original 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With," showing her daughter Ruby, inside the Museum of Fine ...

[Ruby Bridges lives in New Orleans and runs the Ruby Bridges Foundation, dedicated to educating children on social justice issues.] On the morning of my first day of first grade at a new school ...