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It tells the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges who grew up in the South during the Civil Rights movement. She was permitted to attend an all-white school, but when she did, white people not only kept their children home, many protested as well.

About the author

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist.

Bridges, a Mississippi native, still lives in metro New Orleans and has authored or co-authored five books.

Now, with teaching about race in America more complicated than it's ever been, she's authored a picture book about her experience for the youngest of readers. Bridges, along with three other Black students at a different school, were the first to integrate what had been all-white schools in New Orleans in 1960.

When she was four years old, her family moved to New Orleans. Two years later a test was given to the city's African American schoolchildren to determine which students could enter all-white schools. Bridges passed the test and was selected for enrollment at the city's William Frantz Elementary School.

I Am Ruby Bridges: How One Six-Year-Old Girl's March to School Changed the World. Illustrator: Nikkolas Smith. New York: Orchard Books.

Ruby Bridges is a 1998 television film, written by Toni Ann Johnson, directed by Euzhan Palcy and based on the true story of Ruby Bridges, one of the first black students to attend integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960.

Ruby Bridges is a real person who became an indelible image of American history. She was that six year-old girl, painted by Norman Rockwell, who was escorted into school by stout U.S. marshals, when she became the first Black student at the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.

At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.

“When I was six when this happened to me, I had a very, very special teacher. Her name is Barbara Henry,” said Bridges. “We made friends when I was six-years-old, and she's still alive, and she's still my best friend.”

Who is Ruby Bridges for kids? ›

(born 1954). As a child, Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black students to attend formerly all-white schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was the only Black child to enroll at the city's William Frantz Elementary School in 1960, when she was six years old.

Her grandparents were evicted from the farm where they had sharecropped for a quarter-century. Eventually, other African American students enrolled. Ruby went on to graduate from a desegregated highschool, became a travel agent, married, and had four sons. Today, Ruby continues to be a civil rights activist.

Because of her experiences while desegregating Ruby suffered from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Ruby also struggled because she was the only student in the classroom with her teacher, Mrs. Henry. The fact that Ruby had so many struggles made her even more determined to succeed and to make a change.

On November 14, 1960, at the age of six, Ruby became the very first African American child to attend the all-white public William Frantz Elementary School. Ruby and her Mother were escorted by federal marshals to the school.

Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi. She grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi.

Ruby Bridges is an American activist on civil rights who started activism at a young age. At 6 years old, she was the youngest member of an African-American group for racial integration of American schools. In 1960, she became the first African-American student in William Frantz Elementary School.

Ruby Bridges Desegregates a School. On the road to Civil Rights, even children became public figures, such as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, who integrated an all-white elementary school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.

In the last 65 years Ruby Bridges life has influenced many people to stand up for their basic Civil Right to equality, starting with the right to an equal education. At the time Ruby Bridges had no idea what a strong leader she was being for others.

It tells the true story of Ruby Bridges, a six year-old African-American girl is integrated in an all-white schools in the New Orleans.