WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby ... going from ...

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 activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach students ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... think a lot of people realized that Tulane would be irreparably damaged if they didn't go on and do what ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal marshals.

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend ... the situation to her younger self. "What would you say? 'You're about to go to a new school. There's going to be lots of people out there screaming ...