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 ...
Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...
On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in ... Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried ...
Civil rights icon Ruby ... mom to me," Bridges said on TODAY on Feb. 18. The two forged a friendship as teacher and pupil under perilous circumstances at William Frantz Elementary School in ...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...
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 ...
Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six ... Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was the first-ever move to desegregate schools in America.