About Ruby Bridges

In 2014 a statue of ruby was unveiled outside the william frantz school.

About ruby bridges.

Interesting facts about ruby bridges. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Learn more about bridges s life and accomplishments in this article. Ruby bridges 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.

Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. She was the first african american child to desegregate the all white william frantz elementary school in louisiana during the new orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 november 1960. Ruby attended integrated schools all the way through high school. She later became a civil rights activist.

After graduating from high school ruby worked as a travel agent for fifteen years. Born on september 8 1954 bridges was the oldest of five children for lucille and abon bridges farmers in tylertown mississippi. Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist. She married malcolm hall and had four sons.