Screaming protestors surrounded the building as federal marshals escorted a brave six-year-old girl on her way to making ...

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

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...