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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.
- Ruby Bridges (Film)
Ruby Bridges is a 1998 television film, written by Toni Ann...
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- Barbara Henry
As soon as Bridges got into the school, white parents went...
- William Frantz Elementary School
William Frantz Elementary School is an American elementary...
- Robert Coles
Ruby Bridges. In New Orleans, Coles witnessed 6-year-old...
- Ruby Bridges (Film)
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.
At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges 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. Born on September 8, 1954, Bridges was the oldest of five children for Lucille and Abon Bridges, farmers in Tylertown, Mississippi.
Born on September 8, 1954, Bridges was the oldest of five children for Lucille and Abon Bridges, farmers in Tylertown, Mississippi. When Ruby was two years old, her parents moved their family to New Orleans, Louisiana in search of better work opportunities.
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.
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.
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...
