Ruby Bridges
Activist
Notable Achievement
Civil rights pioneer integrated schools
Biography
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall 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. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.
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Birthday Date
Ruby Bridges was born on September 8