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, ...
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 ...
This story was originally published in 2022. For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. To get to school in the morning, Ruby Bridges walked through a crowd of hateful people shouting ...
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