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

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ... grade at the McDonough school and Bridges at William Frantz. With integration came protest and upheaval.

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 ...