Civil rights pioneer visits Hillside’s Ola Edwards Community School

Civil rights pioneer visits Hillside’s Ola Edwards Community School

Patti Kuepper-Artessa, director of Outreach, AAA Northeast; Ruby Bridges; and Nicole Graves-Watson, founder and president of the Hillside Branch of the NAACP, sit together at Bridges’ recent visit to Hillside’s Ola Edwards Community School. Bridges broke the color barrier in 1960 when, as a 6-year-old, she was enrolled at  the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. HILLSIDE, NJ — In 1960, Ruby Bridges, at the age o…