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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.
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. Updated: Feb 23, 2021. Getty Images....
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 · In 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Now she shares the lessons she learned with future generations...
Nov 8, 2020 · Ruby Bridges was only 6 years old when integrated a New Orleans school amid violent protest. Learn more about the life of this civil rights icon.
Feb 1, 2024 · Ruby Bridges shares wisdom in book ‘Dear Ruby, Hear our Hearts' 04:58. Their enrollment took place six years after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Brown v. Board of Education case in...
