Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited Topeka to commemorate the anniversary of the day she desegregated a school in the Deep South.

Friday morning saw students across the country celebrating Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. The day celebrates the courage of Ruby Bridges, who on Nov. 14, 1960 was the first Black student to attend an all-white elementary school in the deep south.

Ruby Bridges, a civil rights icon known for walking among the first group of students to desegregate New Orleans public schools in 1960, on Thursday told an auditorium full of Kansas students, “You cannot believe that you can only trust people who look like you.

At the age of 6, Bridges was the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960. This followed a ruling by U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright, who

Bahia Vista Elementary School students took to the streets in San Rafael’s Canal neighborhood on Thursday to mark a moment in the civil rights movement. The event celebrates the life of

By Kathy Chouteau Sixty-four years ago today, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans and took her place in the history books, becoming the first […]

Today is Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, which commemorates when 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated a New Orleans School in 1960. To honor the historic day, there will be observances in the area. Students around the area will walk to school in the cold with teachers and parents,

Students throughout Kansas honored a special day in history by walking to school. On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to integrate a school in the South.