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.

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

plus a Ruby Bridges coloring page at the side of the biography research area. Basic Information Early Life Major Contributions Impact on Society Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same year the U ...