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.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

You have seen the iconic photo of the wonderfully dressed little Black girl with ... responses of both White students and students of color. While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges ... Board of Education world, Bridges was among more than 100 students to volunteer to be the first Black children to integrate white schools.

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

Ruby Bridges ... That same day, three other black students also attended formerly all-white schools in New Orleans, but Bridges was the only one to enroll on her own. Her mother accompanied ...