TURNEY, RUBY BRIDGES Ruby Turney, age 90, of Altamonte Springs, was taken home to be with her precious Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday, August 5, 2009. She was born in Blacksburg SC, on May ...

Ruby Bridges became a symbol of the civil rights movement for bravely attending an all-white school in Louisiana. Today, students are walking in her honor.

On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...

"Ruby walked so that I could run. I run so that you can fly." Kodjo Wilder, assistant principal at Cascade Middle School, became emotional as he addressed the crowd of hundreds of Bethel School ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. “On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges?’ And I ...