On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary ... Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana ...

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

14, 1960. In the battle for desegregation, six-year-old Ruby Bridges was caught in the middle as the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans ...

A year after becoming the first Black child to integrate William Frantz Elementary School, a young Ruby Bridges (b. 1954) approaches second grade with anticipation, the crowds and U.S. Marshals ...