WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... where on Nov. 14 ...

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 ...

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

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... became the first black children to attend New Orleans public school, more than 70 percent of the students ...

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 at age six when ... 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.