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Ruby Bridges returns to National Civil Rights Museum for annual reading festival

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting its eighth Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 17, featuring celebrated civil rights icon and ...
AOL

I asked Ruby Bridges and other civil rights icons to walk my Fashion Week runway — because Black history belongs front and center

Ruby Bridges, the Black schoolgirl who integrated a formerly whites-only school in the South. Cecil Williams, who was famously photographed drinking from a whites-only fountain. John Carlos and Tommie ...
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Civil rights figure Ruby Bridges will headline this year's Frederick Speaker Series

Over the course of 12 seasons, the Frederick Speaker Series has featured a number of trailblazing Black Americans. During the 2016 season, there was Bryan Stevenson, who began his education at a ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to speak in Long Beach on Wednesday

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...

Shirt with civil rights message and racist slur leads to Oregon gov’t employee’s firing and federal suit

But the picture on Thursday spurred a federal civil rights lawsuit from an Oregon public employee, who says she was fired for ...
Black Enterprise

Ruby Bridges To Return For Annual Reading Festival At The National Civil Rights Museum

The civil rights icon will read her latest novel, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher," at the festival. Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual reading ...