Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.

Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. U.S. marshals had to escort Ruby and her mother to school through an angry crowd of people who didn ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... Although she faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day, she emerged unscathed, physically or ...