Civil Rights Movement

At just 6 years old, Ruby Bridges first walked into William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

Hear from the voices of the women and men who marched to Washington for racial equality in 1963.

One of six Black students involved in a tense confrontation with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and other white students outside a segregated Arkansas high school 65 years ago says “you don’t judge people by the past” and he forgives Jones.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Thursday he was just a “curious kid” when he was part of a group of white students confronting Black students outside North Little Rock High School.