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 announced the death of her mother ... Ruby, then just 6 years old, was greeted by an angry mob hurling slurs at her, and she had to be escorted to school each day by her mom and ...