On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...
Ruby Bridges is a woman with a career, children and grandchildren now, but the nation will always treasure her 6-year-old self. On Nov. 14, 1960, federal marshals escorted her past angry, threatening ...
WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...