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

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.

Ruby Bridges played an important role in garnering civil rights for Black community members by ... and honor the people involved in our school’s history. This event will help connect student ...

While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of all races learn about Black contributions to America as inventors, writers, athletes, politicians, educators ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ... Ten years after Bridges and three other girls became the first black children to attend New Orleans public school, more ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into ... divided by longstanding tradition into separate schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... teacher when Bridges integrated a New Orleans elementary school as the only Black student in 1960. Many white families withdrew their children from the school ...