Six -year old Ruby Bridges, accompanied by federal marshals, walks through a mob of angry protesters to attend her first-grade on November 14, 1960 and becomes the first Black child to integrate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
Due to the hostility, she spent her entire first day and the rest of the school year. alone in a classroom with her teacher, Barbara Henry, and had to be escorted to the bathroom by marshals. She was not allowed to eat in the cafeteria or play outside during recess. Despite the intense racism she faced, Ruby never missed a single day of school that year. More
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