Ruby Bridges was one of six African American children who had the opportunity to go to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, a Caucasian school, six years after the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. On November 14, 1960, the first day of school, she was the only of the six to attend the school. Her mother and she were escorted by four federal marshals for "the local and other federal officials were not willing to protect her" (NWHM). The only teacher willing to teach her was Barbara Henry, a white, Boston native; the class consisted of just the two of them. Because of this change, Ruby's father lost his job, her mother was no longer allowed at the grocery store, and her sharecropper grandparents were expelled from the farm they have lived at for twenty-five years.