Ruby Bridges First African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school. Ruby Bridges was born the same year that the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ordered schools to be segregated. Bridges was six years old when she was chose...

She was only 15 years old when her bus driver had commanded her to move to the back of the bus. Claudette Colvin was very first woman to refuse to give up her seat, the first woman to stand up against discrimination. Read More »...