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

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 ...

Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. U.S. marshals had to escort Ruby and her mother to school through an angry crowd of people who didn ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.