WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... "The Problem We All Live With," in Robert Coles’ book "The Story of Ruby Bridges ...
If you are like me and grew up in the ’90s, you’re regularly looking for some nostalgic movies from those good old days — and ...
I lived the Ruby Bridges experience, without the benefit of having Robert Coles as therapist; the years I spent at that school still haunt my adult life. I was routinely called the n-word.
Nov. 14 is Ruby Bridges Day. It's a day when the walk to school takes on extra meaning for the kids in Derby. Goldberg's ...
Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.
Can you recognize the man, and how do you act on what you have seen? I do not pretend to 'know' Dr. Robert Coles. I can not deliver him for breakfast-table enjoyment in a neat package decorated ...
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day honors the courageous steps taken by Ruby Bridges as the first Black student to attend an all-white elementary school in 1960, amidst the Civil ...
Coles's essays reflect his committed concerns: therapeutic work with children, civil rights, the ethical dimension of medicine. Talking to a six-year-old Southern black girl who defied a white mob ...
The attention-grabbing illustrations are by Lauren Semmer. Ruby Bridges may not have felt like a social activist when she entered an all-white school at the age of 6, but her story of bravery and ...
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 ...
Judith L. Norsigian ’70, who co-founded the women’s health nonprofit Our Bodies, Ourselves, received the Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” award on Friday.