INTEGRATION OF McDONOGH 19 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL November 14, 1960 Ruby Bridges (Hall) and her mother leave William Frantz Elementary School on the second day of classes, escorted by federal marshals.

Bridges attended classes alone for a full year, with only Henry there to teach her. "She filled my day with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun.

The film’s namesake, Ruby Bridges, was 6 when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Flanked by four federal marshals ...

Bridges was forced to sit alone every day in first grade class with the single teacher who agreed to teach her. The shameful chapter was immortalized in The Problem We All Live With , a 1964 ...

Her name was Ruby Bridges, she was six years old, and as she walked up the stairs to school on November 14, 1960, she had no idea she was making history. She thought the crowds were there because ...

The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Ruby was 6, and as she ...

Ruby Bridges arrives at HISTORYTalks on Sept. 24, 2022, at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington. Bridges and Serena Williams will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame next year.

Ruby Bridges will appear in Topeka on Nov. 14, the 64th anniversary of the day she made Civil Rights history by desegregating a New Orleans school.

A Disney film about Ruby Bridges, who was the only Black student at her elementary school in 1960, has sparked a formal complaint in Florida Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest ...

Ruby Bridges will appear in Topeka on Nov. 14, the 64th anniversary of the day she made Civil Rights history by desegregating a New Orleans school.

Serena Williams and Ruby Bridges will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame next year, the hall announced Thursday. ... “The 2024 class of inductees are scientists, ...