When Ruby Bridges went to William Frantz Elementary she was only six years old. She wanted to go to William Frantz Elementary School and William Frantz was an all white school. Before she moved to New Orleans she attended a school called Jonhson Lockett Elementary School Mississippi. The year she moved to New Orleans was in 1960 during the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was when African Americans are treated differently from Whites. Ruby Bridges went to an all white school because she and find other kids in her class passed a big test and she is allowed to go to William Frantz Elementary School if she wanted to go. One the first day the police took Ruby and her mother to William Frantz Elementry school. When Ruby got to school everyone was running at her yelling whites only. Parents are concerned about about Ruby's arrival so they take their children and went home. Everybody Protest outside the school until Ruby leaves but no matter what happens Ruby still went to school.