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 ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that ... On that day three black girls began first grade at the McDonough school and Bridges at William Frantz.

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