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Jan 14, 2021 · In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...
- 8 min
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault,Anne Azzi Davenport
Feb 6, 2024 · On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges put on a starched dress and new shoes and walked, accompanied by four U.S. Marshals through a torrent of hate to get to school.
Apr 26, 2024 · Ruby Bridges at an event in Brooklyn, New York, in November 2017. Bridges said ‘my biggest fans are kids all around the world’. Photograph: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images
- 2 min
- Ramon Antonio Vargas
Apr 3, 2023 · Ruby Bridges is a quintessential slice of “Disney history”, one that takes Norman Rockwell’s searing portrait of Ruby being escorted into New Orleans’ all-white William Franz grammar ...
- 4 min
- Andrew Lawrence
Nov 25, 2020 · VISIBLE GEM This has been a bittersweet month for Ruby Bridges, the civil rights icon who was the first Black student to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans. On Nov. 10, four days before ...
The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. She was the only African American girl to come to the school she was sent to, and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only person in her entire class.
Dec 15, 2014 · On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked past an angry crowd to become the first child to integrate a public elementary school in the American South. Now a mother, grandmother, and ...
