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Ruby Bridges
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American civil rights activist
Key facts
- Born
- Ruby Nell Bridges , ( 1954-09-08 ) September 8, 1954 (age 71) , Tylertown, Mississippi , U.S.
- Occupations
- Philanthropist activist
- Spouse
- Malcolm Hall
- Website
- www .rubybridges .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruby
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tylertown
- Occupation
- activist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Ruby Bridges 21 Sept 2010.JPG
- Significant event
- desegregation
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- Commons category
- Ruby Bridges
- date of birth
- 1954-09-08
- name in native language
- Ruby Bridges
- inception
- 1960-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.
Early life
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