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 ...

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.