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 ...
Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...
And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is set to ... and only Black student at the city’s William Frantz Elementary School. The backlash to Bridges’ enrollment at the school was ...
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...
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.