Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges shares message of faith and family during Spartanburg stop Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruby Bridges (Photo credit: Getty Images/AP) In the decades since, Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges has built a life as an activist, ...

Ruby Bridges’ legacy as a civil rights activist began when she was 6 years old and helped desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. Tyler Essary / TODAY Illustration / ...

Immigration agents detained a 7-year-old girl, along with her family, who was seeking help at a hospital in east Portland. Hiring shortages left classrooms unopened, driving millions in unclaimed ...

PASSAIC — Two of the city's schools combined efforts and joined a nationwide movement to observe Ruby Bridges Day with a symbolic walk on Tuesday morning. School 20 joined School 21, whose students ...

Serena Williams and Ruby Bridges will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame next year, the hall announced Thursday, adding the tennis great and civil rights icon to a previously announced ...

Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day has become an annual tradition for Eugene and Springfield schools. The event is an opportunity for students to learn about segregation and civil rights. Bridges had her ...

Lanny Smith talks about bringing figures of the civil rights movement to New York Fashion Week. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Essence Ventures at NASDAQ) And ...