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 ...

Author and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges will inspire a new generation by releasing her latest children’s book, Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts. Known for her pivotal role in desegregating schools in ...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Gun violence continues to impact people of all ages across the Memphis area, and a local fifth grader is hoping to be a voice for change. Ben Williams, an 11-year-old who attends ...

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 ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges about her friend, Pulitzer Prize winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who died on June 4 at 97.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Children from all over the Mid-South got a chance to get their hands on free books just in time for the summer break. The National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM) hosted civil rights icon, ...

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