Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist.
Ruby bridges story for kids.
Ruby bridges grew up on a small farm in tylertown mississippi.
When ruby was four years old her family moved to new orleans.
In new orleans ruby lived in a small apartment where she shared a bedroom with her sister and two younger brothers.
Two years later a test was given to the city s african american schoolchildren to determine which students could enter all white schools.
Ruby bridges was six when she became the first african american child to integrate a white southern elementary school.
When she was four years old her family moved to new orleans.
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.