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 ...
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Who Was Ruby Bridges?
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to attend an all-white public school in the South. Escorted by federal marshals through crowds of ...
Ruby Bridges, who made history at age ... schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was the first-ever move ...