Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La., in November 1960.

Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same year Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools to integrate with “all deliberate speed.” Six years later, as immortalized by the famous Norman Rockwell ...

Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend integrated schools in the south, is celebrating her 64th birthday this weekend. At just the age of six, Bridges walked into an all-white school on ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans, ...

Sixty-four years ago next month, U.S. Marshals accompanied Ruby Bridges as the 6-year-old walked past crowds of jeering white people to become one of the first Black children to attend an all-white ...

A sea of purple flooded the playground at Stonegate Elementary in Irvine as students walked around campus together in honor of a little girl who, 63 years ago, had taken the first steps to desegregate ...