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

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...

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.

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

I told my granddaughter that Bridges started school in 1960 ... of affirmative responses of both White students and students of color. While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black ...

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School so that Ruby would have better educational opportunities than she did Rachel DeSantis is a ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story ... the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans ...

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

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at ... tradition into separate schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was ...