Ruby Bridges Educational Foundation

She began to accomplish her vision at william frantz by opening an after school multi cultural art club.

Ruby bridges educational foundation.

She then went to other schools to promote cultural understanding through community service so that racism can hopefully be eliminated. In 2009 she published the children s book ruby bridges goes to school. 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. Her grandparents were sharecroppers but like many.

Bridges was inspired following the murder of her youngest brother malcolm bridges in a drug related killing in. A lifelong activist for racial equality in 1999 ruby established the ruby bridges foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. The ruby bridges foundation had a vision to give kids an equal opportunity to succeed. In 1999 bridges formed the ruby bridges foundation headquartered in new orleans.

Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist. In 2000 she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in washington dc. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell.