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

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.

ABC NEWS: Civil rights icon, activist, author, and speaker Ruby Bridges made history at just 6 years old as the first Black ...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African ... crowds screaming racist slurs as Ruby became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... was divided by longstanding tradition into separate schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges has written a children’s book with ... It arrives 60 years after she made history at age 6 by becoming the first Black student at an all-white elementary ...