Christopher Hall Ruby Bridges

Ruby bridges the first black student to attend an all white new orleans school joins us to talk about civil rights activism and persistent racism in the u s.

Christopher hall ruby bridges.

She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Ruby bridges born sept. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the 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.

She later became a civil rights activist. Actually ruby bridges today ruby bridges hall had four sons one when she was just a teenager and unmarried and the other three with her husband malcolm. 8 1954 the subject of an iconic painting by norman rockwell was only 6 years old when she received national attention for desegregating an elementary school in new orleans in her pursuit of a quality education during a time when black people were treated as second class citizens little bridges became a civil rights icon.