WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby ... going from ...

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges ... about it. I mean, which is what this book is about. I had all these questions that I ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school ... go to college,” she said. “And for my parents, I mean ...

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend ... the situation to her younger self. "What would you say? 'You're about to go to a new school. There's going to be lots of people out there screaming ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... think a lot of people realized that Tulane would be irreparably damaged if they didn't go on and do what ...

Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. U.S. marshals had to escort Ruby and her mother to school through an angry crowd of people who didn ...

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

Ruby Bridges ... all-white schools in New Orleans, but Bridges was the only one to enroll on her own. Her mother accompanied her into the school, but they spent the first day in the principal ...