6-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first black child to attend the white only “William Frantz Elementary School” in New Orleans. She traveled 5 blocks from home, facing an angry mob as she walked ...

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

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...