On November 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges became a ____ of the U.S. civil rights movement. She was just 6 years old. Her simple act of going to an all-white school marked the beginning of ____ for U.S. public schools. Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, on September 8, 1954. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that ____ in U.S. public schools was against the constitution. Ruby was chosen to be part of a small group of black students who would take a ____ given by the school district. The test determined which students would attend the all-white schools. Bridges was one of six black children who passed the test. She enrolled in William Frantz Elementary School. It was just blocks from her home. On November 14, ____ escorted Bridges and her mother to her new school. When she arrived at her classroom, she found a teacher but no ____. Her teacher, Barbara Henry, was a Boston, Massachusetts, native who had moved to the South hoping to help schools ____. The following school year, Bridges attended second grade at William Frantz. This time, the crowds had ____, and her classroom was full of ____. In 2014—54 years after she attended her first day of school at William Frantz—a bronze statue of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was unveiled in the school’s courtyard. “We need to honor the power of children,” she said at the ceremony. “We need to encourage them that they can do ____ things.”

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