Ruby Bridges
Who is Ruby Bridges?
Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) was six when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school on November 14, 1960, escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs. Bridges' bravery paved the way for continued Civil Rights action and she's shared her story with future generations in educational forums.
How might you feel if you were only 6 and marshalls had to escort you to school because people were shouted nasty things to you just because you wanted to go to a school where traditionally only white children went? Explain your answer.
Ruby Bridges
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If you were writing an online story about Ruby, what are some things you might like to write about her? Create a list of questions...
Research some of these questions and write an online biography about Ruby.
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Bridges’s bravery inspired the Norman Rockwell painting The Problem We All Live With (1964), which depicts the young Bridges walking to school between two sets of marshals, a racial epithet marking the wall behind them.