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Nov 11, 2020 · Her mother worked as a housekeeper, and in 1953 she married Abon Bridges, a mechanic. The couple had eight children and separated in the late 1960s. Mr. Bridges died in 1978.
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Nov 11, 2020 · NEW ORLEANS — Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black...
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- School Desegregation
- Integrating William Frantz Elementary
- Continuing Challenges
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Ruby Nell Bridges was born on Sept. 8, 1954 in a cabin in Tylertown, Mississippi. Her mother, Lucille Bridges, was the daughter of sharecroppers and had little education because she worked in the fields. Sharecropping, a system of agriculture instituted in the American South during the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, perpetuated racia...
In 1954, just four months before Bridges was born, the Supreme Court ruled that legally mandated segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment, making it unconstitutional. But the landmark Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, didn’t lead to immediate change. Schools in the mostly Southern states where segregation was enforced by...
On that November morning in 1960, Bridges was the only Black child assigned to the William Frantz Elementary School. The first day, a crowd shouting angrily surrounded the school. Bridges and her mother entered the building with the help of four federal marshals and spent the day sitting in the principal’s office. By the second day, all the White f...
Bridges' entire family faced reprisals because of her integration efforts. Her father was fired after White patrons of the gas station where he worked threatened to take their business elsewhere. Abon Bridges would mostly remain jobless for five years. In addition to his struggles, Bridges' paternal grandparents were forced off their farm. Bridges'...
Bridges graduated from an integrated high school and went to work as a travel agent. She married Malcolm Hall, and the couple had four sons. When her youngest brother was killed in a 1993 shooting, Bridges took care of his four girls as well. By that time, the neighborhood around William Frantz Elementary had become populated by mostly Black reside...
Bridges has not sat quietly in the years since her famed walk to integrate the New Orleans school. She currently has her own website and speaks at schools and various events. For example, Bridges spoke at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in early 2020 during Martin Luther King Jr.week. She also spoke at a school district in Houston in 2018, where...
"Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Speaks to Spring ISD Students About Racism, Tolerance and Change." springisd.org.“Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges To Speak During MLK Week.” 104-1 The Blaze, 15 Jan. 2020.“President Obama Meets Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges.” National Archives and Records Administration, 15 July 2011.“Ruby Bridges: Civil Rights Icon, Activist, Author, Speaker.” rubybridges.com.Learn about Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to integrate an all-White school in New Orleans in 1960. Find out how her parents, Abon and Lucille Bridges, supported her courageous decision and faced backlash from the community.
Apr 2, 2014 · Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to integrate an all-white public elementary school in the South in 1960. She faced violent mobs, ostracism and threats, but also received support from some teachers and parents.
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.
- Philanthropist, activist
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- Ruby Nell Bridges, September 8, 1954 (age 69), Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S.
Nov 12, 2020 · Abon Bridges died in 1978. Mrs. Bridges was predeceased by two of her children, including a son who was fatally shot. His daughters, whom Ruby Bridges helped care for, attended William Frantz...
In 1953, Lucille married Abon Bridges, a mechanic. She gave birth to Ruby in Tylertown, Mississippi, in 1954 — the same year as the landmark Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision that ended racial segregation in schools.
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