#OTD in 1960, Ruby Bridges, at only six years old, integrated William Frantz Public School in New Orleans and became the first Black student to integrate an elementary school in the South.

The school district required an entrance exam for Black students, and Ruby was one of five students who passed. For the entire school year, she was escorted to class by federal marshals and braved mobs of people screaming slurs at her.

Only one teacher at William Frantz Public School was willing to teach Ruby and she became a class of one--but she never missed a day of school.

In 1964, Norman Rockwell celebrated Ruby’s courage with the painting “The Problem We All Live With” which depicts the struggle she had to face every day.

Ruby continues to be an activist and still fights for racial equality and equal access to education. #CivilRights