Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruby Bridges, a fixture of the American civil rights movement, visited Topeka on Nov. 14, 2024, to commemorate Kansas' second ...

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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 ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she entered first grade at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, accompanied by U.S. Marshals for her protection. She spent her entire first day — ...

More than six decades after Ruby Bridges made history by becoming the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, students across the country will honor her legacy ...

Memphis, TN, April 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting the Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 4, in partnership with civil rights and literacy advocate ...

Ruby Bridges' new book highlights the story that made her a civil rights icon: walking into school as one of the first Black students to desegregate an all-white Louisiana school in 1960. "I Am Ruby ...

Ruby Bridges, a fixture of the American civil rights movement, visited Topeka on Nov. 14, 2024, to commemorate Kansas' second annual Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) ...

Memphis, TN, July 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum welcomes families, educators, and young readers to its 9th Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on August 1, 2026. Presented in ...