Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

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

Ruby Bridges ... mother accompanied her into the school, but they spent the first day in the principal’s office, due to the chaos. During the era when civil rights came to the forefront of ...