WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... and have fun. I ...
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...
Civil rights icon Ruby ... Bridges attended classes alone for a full year, with only Henry there to teach her. "She filled my day with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun.