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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites -only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
May 3, 2024 · Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954, Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S.) is an American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was, at age six, the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate schools in the American South.
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- Ruby Bridges worked as a travel agent before becoming a stay-at-home mother. In 1993 she began working as parent liaison at the grade school she ha...
- At the age of six she was the youngest of a group of African American students sent to all-white schools in order to integrate schools in the Ameri...
- For the first year, she was escorted by marshals and was taught by a single teacher, while white parents pulled their children from the school and...
- Photographs of her going to school inspired Norman Rockwell to paint The Problem We All Live With. Bridges wrote a memoir, Through My Eyes, and a c...
Apr 2, 2014 · Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to integrate an all-white public elementary school in the South. She later became a civil rights activist.
Trailblazer Ruby Bridges was only six when she advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Learn more about her on womenshistory.org.
Sep 7, 2022 · The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges got dressed and left for school. At just six years old, Ruby became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white...
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Feb 1, 2024 · Ruby Bridges reflects on her legacy, what keeps her hopeful and that she sees herself in the young people who write her letters. The civil rights activist, now 69, looks back on what her 6-year...
Meet Ruby. Civil Rights Icon, Activist, Author, Speaker. In 1960, when Ruby Bridges was only six years old, she became one of the first black children to integrate New Orleans’ all white public school system.
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