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 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. 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. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. 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.

Ruby bridges in full ruby nell bridges married name ruby bridges hall born september 8 1954 tylertown mississippi u s american activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of african american students to integrate schools in the american south. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Her oldest son craig was murdered.