WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... where on Nov. 14 ...

Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. U.S. marshals had to escort Ruby and her mother to school through an angry crowd of people who didn ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach students ...

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 ... grader 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 at age six when ... 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.