WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

Gwen Partridge, or Mrs. Gwen to her pre-K students, walked around her homemade Black History Museum at the YMCA Immanuel ... about 65 years ago: Ruby Bridges. “And I’m like, ‘She was little, just like ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby ... history in front of Long Beach students and community members on Wednesday evening, March 19. Bridges made history as the first Black student ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that ... institution for its 129-year history until February 1963, when 11 black students enrolled. They arrived after a ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into ... divided by longstanding tradition into separate schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary ...