a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a ...

“She walked these stairs and not only changed the course of integration in this city ... who grew up in the 9th Ward and attended William Frantz Elementary in the 1970s before returning to ...

Her family eventually moved to New Orleans, where on Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, ...

Bridges, who was 6 years old when she first walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New ... stairs and not only changed the course of integration in this city, but also the course of ...

Sixty years ago this month, Ruby Nell Bridges became the first Black child to attend the all-White William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans — escorted by federal marshals during a tense ...

But the same morning that Bridges faced fulminating White mobs to enter the first grade at William Frantz Elementary ... separated by race as opponents of integration mounted a campaign of ...

Bridges was on her own — accompanied by federal marshals through an angry crowd of white parents — as she began attending class at William Frantz Elementary. It’s the largest role Lavelle ...

a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a ...