Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lanny Smith talks about bringing figures of the civil rights movement to New York Fashion Week. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; ...

(WSVN) - 71-year-old civil rights icon Ruby Bridges was honored by the Golden State Warriors, who named her an “Impact Warrior”. In 1960, Bridges became the first Black student to attend Williams ...

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 ...

To commemorate the struggles and successes of a civil rights icon, students at Modesto’s Woodrow Elementary School took part Friday in the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. Students across all grade ...

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 ...