The civil rights icon will read her latest novel, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher," at the festival. Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual ...

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting its eighth Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 17, featuring celebrated civil rights icon and ...

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting its eighth Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 17, featuring celebrated civil rights icon and ...

The two signs, posted above water fountains inside the cafeteria at Honey Creek Elementary in Rockdale County, Georgia, were part of an unapproved lesson about Ruby Bridges, the first African ...

Segregation-era signs posted as part of a school lesson have stirred anger among parents in a Georgia school district, reports say. Photo by MChe Lee via Unsplash A Georgia school district is ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach ...

Ruby Franke's former husband has hit back at ... years and extrapolated and assumed that those types of criminal activities were occurring years before Jodie entered our family.

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 ...

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 ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth As Ruby Bridges prepared to address a packed Rockefeller Chapel on Jan. 29, black ...

SPARTANBURG — As part of a week of activities to celebrate Martin Luther ... of the best-known figures of the Civil Rights Era. Ruby Bridges will speak during the community celebration at ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...