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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 ...
Civil rights icon and activist Ruby Bridges is offering her wisdom to a new generation with her book “Dear Ruby, Hear our Hearts.” She opens up about uplifting students by sharing their stories, ...
Twenty-five students aged four to 12 attended a read-aloud of Ruby Bridges’ newest children’s book titled “Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts,” a compilation of letters that she had received from young ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Students at a Fort Wayne preschool are learning about a leader whose name became known nationwide when she was just 6 years old, and whose book retells the pivotal story that ...
Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Ruby Bridges remembers how excited she was when an anonymous donor sent Dr. Seuss books to her New Orleans home in 1960, the year she ended segregation in local public education by ...