Webon ruby’s first day, a large crowd of angry white people gathered outside the frantz elementary school.

Webin 1960, when she was just 6 years old, ruby bridges walked past hateful protesters and into a school, and changed history.

In 1959, ruby attended a segregated kindergarten school.

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Bridges became the first black child at a louisiana.

Southern states continued to resist the push for integration from the supreme court ruling.

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The people carried signs that said they didn’t want black children in.

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