Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach ...

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

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things. She walked in accompanied by four federal law enforcement officers.