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Ruby Bridges is the name of the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the American South. In 1960, as a six year old in New Orleans, Loui...
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Ruby Bridges is the name of the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the American South. In 1960, as a six year old in New Orleans, Loui...
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The photo of Ruby Bridges on November 14, 1960 captures a single, small figure walking between federal marshals toward William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana...
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The teacher in Ruby Bridges' first-grade classroom at William Frantz Elementary in 1960 was Barbara Henry, a white educator from Boston who arrived alone to teach Ruby that year...
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