Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...

Civil rights icon Ruby ... me," Bridges said on TODAY on Feb. 18. The two forged a friendship as teacher and pupil under perilous circumstances at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans ...

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

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is set to join ... Born in Mississippi in 1954, Bridges and her family moved to New Orleans when she was 4 years old. By 1960, she would become ...