... the little black girl who had to be escorted to school by federal marshals.  "On November 14, 1960, nearly 42 years ago, Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend a previously all-white New Orleans school. She was 6 years old and had only been told by her mother that she was going to be attending a new school that day and 'had better behave.'  Little did she know that she would be b****arded with jeers and even death threats, and that she would end up being the sole child in her first grade class after other children were kept home by their parents."  All because Ruby was Black.