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 ...

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded ... 1960, was the first-ever move to desegregate schools in America. That same day, three ...