How Ruby Bridges made school integration history at 6, while racists screamed at her
WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...
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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges brings her story to new generation
Ruby Bridges, who in November 1960 became the first Black student to integrate at her all-white New Orleans public elementary school when she was only six years old, joins TODAY to share her new ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to speak in Long Beach on Wednesday
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...
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Ruby Bridges and Integration of New Orleans Schools
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.