WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

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

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... to work while a Black child was part of the student body. "I would not have gotten through that if it had not been for my teacher," Bridges said.

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.

Kansas House committee votes down permanent Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges, a six-year-old girl, became one of the first Black students to integrate a school in the South.