Ruby Bridges speaks during in interview with the Associated Press in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. The civil rights pioneer said America today looks a lot like the world she helped integrate 54 years ago: A nation with segregated schools and racial tension. On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges, then 6 years old, became the […]
Ruby Bridges speaks during in interview with the Associated Press in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. The civil rights pioneer said America today looks a lot like the world she helped integrate 54 years ago: A nation with segregated schools and racial tension. On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges, then 6 years old, became the first black student to attend a previously all-white elementary school in New Orleans. On Friday, she commemorated that event with the unveiling of a statue in her likeness at her old school and a reunion with the white teacher who taught her and with the sole-surviving U.S. marshal who walked her to school. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)