At just six years old, Ruby became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Federal marshals had to escort Ruby, as she was faced with ...

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever.

Read full article: Houston gets break from storms before next round moves in Ruby Bridges and U.S. Marshals leaving William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, LA on November 14, 1960.

U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960. The first grader was the only Black child enrolled in the school ...

MILLCREEK, Utah — Thousands of students, parents, and teachers nationwide put on their walking shoes Tuesday morning in celebration of "Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day" to honor the first ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

At the William Frantz school, where as many as 23 white students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster.

Braving the rain, about 100 children walked to Zane Middle School to honor Ruby Bridges, who as a 6-year-old, integrated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Zane sixth ...

The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges got dressed and left for school. At just six years old, Ruby became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz ...

Bridges, who was 6 years old when she first walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, didn’t attend Thursday’s event. But members of her family were there as Lt. Gov.