On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...

Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ...

Norman Rockwell painted The Problem We All Live With. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old Black girl, being escorted by U ...

The big difference was that I entered an all-Black school in Baton Rouge while Bridges integrated an all-White school in New Orleans ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges (right) maintains a close relationship with retired teacher Barbara Henry (left), who was her first grade teacher when Bridges integrated a New Orleans elementary ...

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

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 ...

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

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story ... white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was the first-ever move to desegregate schools in ...