Born on September 8, 1954 (age 63), Tylertown Mississippi
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Franz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
age 6
Education: William Franz Elementary School
Spouse : Malcolm Hall (m. 1984)
Parents: Abon Bridges, Lucille Bridges
Children: Craig Hall, Sean Hall, Christopher Hall
Ruby bridges wrote two books:
Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story in 2009,
Through My Eyes in 1999
Ruby Bridges was six when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school on November 14, 1960, escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs.
On January 11, 1998, Disney made a movie about Ruby Bridges!
age 63
An American Girl Doll made after Ruby Bridges
A picture of Ruby Bridges entering a all white school.
A picture of Ruby and her sister