Born on september 8 1954 bridges was the oldest of five children for lucille and abon bridges farmers in tylertown mississippi.
Ruby bridges as a baby.
This social studies video for children shares the braver.
Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist.
Ruby bridges is a disney tv movie written by toni ann johnson about bridges experience as the first black child to integrate an all white southern elementary school.
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.
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.