The Bridges family suffered after Ruby helped integrate the school — Abon lost his job, and grocery stores refused to sell to Lucille, the museum said. Her share-cropping grandparents were also ...

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

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... and the white owners of a grocery store refused to allow her family to shop. By the end of the week, only ...