The Bridges family suffered after Ruby helped integrate the school — Abon lost ... There's going to be lots of people out there screaming and yelling at you... but you know, I'm going to be ...
WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby ... people that were ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun. I enjoyed learning. Even though the crowd was outside screaming and yelling, she would go ...
Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. U.S. marshals had to escort Ruby and her mother to school through an angry crowd of people who didn ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...
Republicans on the House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have permanently designated Nov. 14 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in ... by throngs of angry people protesting desegregation.