Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...

“Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day should ... became the first Black student to attend an all-white school in the South. “We do have a Black History ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history ... None of the white parents would allow their children to attend the school that day, and all but one teacher refused to show up for work. Eventually, the students ...