Bridges was only 6 years old when she started at this formerly all-white school. Ruby Bridges’ quotes reflect her resilience, ...
WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...