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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 ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

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

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her ... into that classroom to learn wasn’t reading, writing or arithmetic,” Bridges said. “I learned that exact same lesson ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...