She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide ... the parent argued that scene could teach white students to hate ...

About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk ... recognizing Bridges, who at age 6 attended an all-white school as a young Black girl in 1960.

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.

Screaming protestors surrounded the building as federal marshals escorted a brave six-year-old girl on her way to making history. In first grade. It was November of 1960 when Ruby Bridges became the ...

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 ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges ... March 19. Bridges made history as the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges ... also attended formerly all-white schools in New Orleans, but Bridges was the only one to enroll on her own. Her mother accompanied her into the school, but they spent the first ...

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 ...