Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Nov. 14 marks 65 years since Ruby Bridges made history by becoming the first Black child to integrate an all-White elementary ...

"It made think about the protesters from 1960," Bridges says. "It made me think about the day that I walked up those stairs when I integrated Frantz school." ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...

Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to enter a formerly all-White ...

ELKHART, Ind. (WNDU) - A mother of a Pinewood Elementary student said her son’s teacher gave an inappropriate assignment that asked fourth-graders to write from the perspective of white students who ...