Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary ...

Author and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges is slamming book banners’ attempts to censor her work, reiterating how children are the ones most drawn to her powerful story. Bridges’ story marked an ...

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 ...