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 ...

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.

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, has died at the age of 86. In 1960, Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as Ruby ...

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 ...

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 ...