A former Safe Routes to School coordinator says she was fired for wearing a Ruby Bridges t-shirt. In a complaint filed last ...

But the picture on Thursday spurred a federal civil rights lawsuit from an Oregon public employee, who says she was fired for ...

Beth Schmidt alleges she was fired for wearing a shirt with a painting depicting Ruby Bridges while promoting Ruby Bridges ...

As America’s 250th anniversary commemorative coins begin to circulate, outrage grows over who has been left out. The ...

The Trump administration has canceled plans to feature civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges and abolitionist Frederick Douglass on commemorative coins marking the United States' 250th anniversary.

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 "best ...

Ruby Bridges may be widely known as the brave Black child who desegregated an all-white school in the South, but it was her mom, Lucille, who put the decision in motion."Brave, progressive, a champion ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader ...

This story was originally published in 2022. For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. To get to school in the morning, Ruby Bridges walked through a crowd of hateful people shouting ...

Ruby Bridges may be widely known as the brave Black child who desegregated an all-white school in the South, but it was her mom, Lucille, who put the decision in motion."Brave, progressive, a champion ...