This story originally appeared on Kansas Reflector. TOPEKA, Kansas — Ruby Bridges, a civil rights icon known for walking ...

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

During the height of the Civil Rights Movement and living in a post-Brown v. Board of Education world, Bridges was among more ...

Kansas students honored Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate a school in the South, by participating in "Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day." ...

On Thursday, students from across Kansas got to experience living history, as civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited the ...

In celebration of the walk Ruby Bridges made as she desegregated the ... Arts Magnet School and Pauline Central Primary School in Topeka and Eugene Ware Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW ... as civil rights icon Ruby Bridges visited the Capital City for Walk to School Day. What started as a local kindergarten class taking a symbolic walk has transformed ...

Ruby Bridges, a fixture of the American civil rights movement, visited Topeka on Nov. 14, 2024, to commemorate Kansas' second annual Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) ...

Schools, clubs and church/community groups may sign up to participate in Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, even if their school is not part of the Topeka event.The Nov. 14 observance at White ...

Sixty-four years ago next month, U.S. Marshals accompanied Ruby Bridges as the 6-year-old walked past crowds of jeering white people to become one of the first Black children to attend an all-white ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones ... moment Thursday for more than 1,000 Kansas students in Topeka at Washburn University to commemorate the 70th anniversary ...