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Ruby Bridges
American civil rights activist (born 1954)
For the 1998 television film, see Ruby Bridges (film).
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.
Early life
Bridges was the eldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.[4] As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings,[5] though she also enjoyed playing jump rope and softball and climbing trees.[6] When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Bridges was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents responded to a reque