Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

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

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

Ruby Bridges ... and all but one teacher refused to show up for work. Eventually, the students returned, but none of them was willing to share a classroom with her. Bridges was taught in a ...