6-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first black child to attend the white only “William Frantz Elementary School” in New Orleans. She traveled 5 blocks from home, facing an angry mob as she walked ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.