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 ...

Ruby Bridges, who in November 1960 became the first Black student to integrate at her all-white New Orleans public elementary school when she was only six years old, joins TODAY to share her new ...