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

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... That same day, three other black students also attended formerly all-white schools in New Orleans, but Bridges was the only one to enroll ...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American ... racist slurs as Ruby became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

Though she spent her entire first year at her school as the only pupil — all her peers refused to join — her bravery had a domino effect. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges ...