Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...
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 ...
6-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first black child to attend the white only “William Frantz Elementary School” in New Orleans. She traveled 5 blocks from home, facing an angry mob as she walked ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she ... "She filled my day with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun. I enjoyed learning. Even though the crowd was outside screaming ...
Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.
Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.