Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... After the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandated desegregation of public schools ...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story ... Court handed out its landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared state-sponsored segregation ...

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

On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges ... for the Bridges family. Numerous legal cases helped pave the way for racial equality but few as powerful as the Brown v. Board of Education ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...