WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... of the school ...
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Who Was Ruby Bridges?
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to attend an all-white public school in the South. Escorted by federal marshals through crowds of ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she ... in the form of the iconic Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With." "It's that one lone child," Bridges said. "That innocence that ...
And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... her safety, Bridges was escorted into the building each day by U.S. Marshals. This scene served as the inspiration for Norman Rockwell’s ...