Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old Black child when she was first to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in Louisiana in November 1960. She had to be federally protected from the white mobs opposing ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...