Ruby Bridges | |
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![]() Bridges in 2011 | |
Born | Ruby Nell Bridges September 8, 1954 Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Philanthropist, activist |
Website | www |
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.[1][2][3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.
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