Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...
WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... and threats at ...
Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that ... On that day three black girls began first grade at the McDonough school and Bridges at William Frantz.
Baraka Ruhumukiza, a fourth-grade student ... votes down permanent Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges, a six-year-old girl, became one of the first Black students to ...