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 ... institution for its 129-year history until February 1963, when 11 black students enrolled. They arrived after a ...

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