It wasn't my choice. I was 6," Bridges said. The Civil Rights Movement icon spoke at the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have ... and she was the one for me," she said. Bridges' story of integration ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.