 In 1960, federal law mandated that all segregated public schools must integrate. As the first black child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana, each day that year, Ruby prayed the same prayer. Lord, she prayed, please be with me and with them too, because they don't know what they're doing. Little Ruby was a great American and proved America's a land where the color of your skin shall never keep you from the life you deserve.