WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...
ABC NEWS: Civil rights icon, activist, author, and speaker Ruby Bridges made history at just 6 years old as the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
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 ...