Christopher Hall Ruby Bridges

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.

Christopher hall ruby bridges.

Ruby bridges the first black student to attend an all white new orleans school joins us to talk about civil rights activism and persistent racism in the u s. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. Ruby bridges born sept.

Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist. She later became a civil rights activist. Ruby bridges in full ruby nell bridges married name ruby bridges hall born september 8 1954 tylertown mississippi u s 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.