Nov 14, 2020 · Sixty years ago, Ruby Bridges walked to school escorted by four federal marshals as a White mob hurled insults at her. Bridges, just 6 years old on November 14, 1960, was set to begin first...

Nov 19, 2013 · On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Four...

Nov 27, 2021 · On the morning of November 14, 1960, federal marshals drove Ruby and her mother five blocks to her new school. While in the car, one of the men explained that when they arrived at the school, two marshals would walk in front of Ruby, and two would be behind her.

Mar 2, 2021 · Six-year-old Ruby Bridges walks into William Frantz Elementary School, accompanied by federal marshals and taunted by angry crowds, instantly becoming a symbol of the civil rights...

November 14th, 1960, was the first day of first grade for 6-year-old Ruby Bridges of New Orleans, where public schools were desegregated by court order. Ruby was one of four black students...

Nov 14, 2022 · Dozens of children participated in a walk to honor Ruby Bridges; 42 years ago, photos were taken as then 6-year-old Ruby, of New Orleans, ...more. Walking together and wearing purple, students from...

Despite her father’s initial reluctance to expose his daughter to the potential trouble that integration was expected to cause, six year-old Ruby Bridges was put forward for an academic entrance...

Six year old Ruby Bridges stepped into the history books in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans becoming a national icon for the civil rights movement. Today her story continues to inspire the next generation of …

At just six years-old, Bridges bravely walked into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, becoming the first African American child to attend an all-white Southern elementary school following a federal mandate to desegregate schools.

The little girl on the left is me in November 1960, walking up the steps of William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, the first black student at the formerly all-white elementary school. That’s me now, on the right, married, a mother of four.