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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. [1] [2] [3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We ...

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  2. Nov 11, 2020 · Cantrell said Ruby’s father, Abon Bridges, was initially reluctant to send his daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School as a first-grader in 1960, at the request of the NAACP ...

  3. Nov 12, 2020 · November 11, 2020 / 7:44 PM EST / AP. Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, has died at the age of 86. In 1960, Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past ...

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  4. Nov 11, 2020 · Cantrell said Ruby's father, Abon Bridges, was initially reluctant to send his daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School as a first-grader in 1960, at the request of the NAACP. But his wife insisted. According to the National Women's History Museum, Lucille Bridges wanted her daughter to have the education she never had.

  5. Nov 11, 2020 · Cantrell said Ruby's father, Abon Bridges, was initially reluctant to send his daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School as a first-grader in 1960, at the request of the NAACP.

  6. Nov 11, 2020 · Nov. 11, 2020. Lucille Commadore Bridges, who in 1960 broke through the segregated education system of the Deep South by enrolling her 6-year-old daughter, Ruby, in an all-white elementary school ...

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  8. Nov 11, 2020 · U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, in this November 1960, file photo. Lucille Bridges, Ruby's mother, died Tuesday at the age of 86. / AP

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