Ruby Bridges 2016

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.

Ruby bridges 2016.

Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. Disney s ruby bridges is a great movie and i show it every year when teaching about the civil rights movement to third graders. It requires preparation prior to showing so i read biographies about martin luther king jr rosa parks and ruby bridges first so that students understand what was happening at the time and then show the movie. As a young 6 year old girl growing up in the south during the days of the civil rights movement ruby was selected by the courts and ordered to attend the all white school of franz elementary school.

Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist. Ruby bridges 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 is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. The story of ruby bridges is a lovingly illustrated true story of ruby bridges.