WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

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 ...

Norman Rockwell painted The Problem We All Live With. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old Black girl, being escorted by U ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life ... as the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school ...

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, who made history ... None of the white parents would allow their children to attend the school that day, and all but one teacher refused to show up for work. Eventually, the students ...