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

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... Although she faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day, she emerged unscathed, physically or ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it ... I enjoyed learning. Even though the crowd was outside screaming and yelling, she would go to the window and close the window ...