WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that ... institution for its 129-year history until February 1963, when 11 black students enrolled. They arrived after a ...

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

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is ... class would be discussing Black history. Gaither could not recall if she and her fellow Black students, like Bridges, were jeered at on ...

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

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... to work while a Black child was part of the student body. "I would not have gotten through that if it had not been for my teacher," Bridges said.

Lucille Bridges, who helped change the course of American history when she accompanied ... Elementary School in New Orleans, which Ruby was the first Black child to integrate in 1960.

Ruby Bridges played an important role in garnering civil rights for Black community members by ... and honor the people involved in our school’s history. This event will help connect student ...