WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

“On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges ... Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. Bridges, escorted by federal marshals ...

The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Ruby was 6 ...