Ruby Bridges will appear in Topeka on Nov. 14, the 64th anniversary of the day she made Civil Rights history by desegregating a New Orleans school.

At the age of 6, Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her first day at the school was on Nov. 14, 1960.

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Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first grader in November 1960 when she had to be escorted by federal marshals as the first Black student in her all-white public elementary school in New Orleans.© TODAY ...

Ruby Bridges will appear in Topeka on Nov. 14, the 64th anniversary of the day she made Civil Rights history by desegregating a New Orleans school.

At the age of 6, Bridges was the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960. This followed a ruling by U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright, who o… ...

Tuesday marks 63 years since Ruby Bridges, then six years old, became the first Black student to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. Students celebrated her legacy with a symbolic ...

Ruby Bridges poses next to a cutout of herself at age 6 at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis. She was the first black child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Students gathered at San Jose City Hall Thursday morning as part of Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, a national commemoration of the historic Civil Rights moment. Notre Dame High School students ...