Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon who, at the age of six, became the first African American student to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South. Born in Tylertown, Mississippi in 1954, Ruby Bridges was the eldest of eight children. Her parents worked as sharecroppers on a plantation, and Ruby often helped with … Read more
Ruby Bridges was an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South. Bridges’ parents worked as sharecroppers on a plantation in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1960, when she was six years old, they decided to send her to New Orleans to live with relatives so … Read more
Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi) is an American civil rights activist. In 1960 Ruby Bridges was one of the first black children to attend a previously all-white elementary school in Louisiana as ordered by the court following the U. S Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education . Ruby … Read more