Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

However, Ruby Bridges became a household name ... She sheds light on her upcoming documentary, “The New Orleans Legacy Project,” which aims to explore the full narrative of all four girls.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public ...