

"She went to school... and taught the nation a lesson."
When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.
Ruby Nell Bridges

Abon Bridges

Barbara Henry

Lucielle 'Lucy' Bridges

Dr. Robert Coles

Jane Coles

Dr. Broyard

Miss Woodmere

Miss Spencer
