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    Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is born September 8, 1954, in Mississippi, US. She works for civil rights in the United States. When the New Orleans school desegregation crisis broke out on November 14, 1960, she became the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. The Problem We All Live With, a Norman Rockwell painting from 1964, features her as its subject.

    Early Life

    Abon and Lucille Bridges had fem children, with Bridges being the oldest. She spent a lot of her childhood caring for her younger siblings, but she also loved jump roping, softball, and climbing trees. Bridges' family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, when she was four years old from Tylertown, Mississippi, where she was born. Even though her father was sceptical, her parents agreed to volunteer her to take part in the integration of the New Orleans school system in 1960 when she was six years old in response to a request from th

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    Happy 67th Birthday to Ruby Bridges.
    Born September 8, 1954, She was the first African-American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She became the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell.
    On July 15, 2011, Bridges met with President Barack Obama at the White House, and while viewing the Norman Rockwell painting of her on display he told her, "I think it's fair to say that if it hadn't been for you guys, I might not be here and we wouldn't be looking at this together".
    The Rockwell painting was displayed in the West Wing of the White House, just outside the Oval Office, from June through October 2011.

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    This story was posted on facebook by my senior and house mate in St. Teresa House in St. Augustines College, Senior Kodwash, Alex Kodwiw. He is so right and I share in his embarrassment that I also did not know. Read on his story of the 6 year old Ruby Bridges and her brave teacher Barbara Henry who fought racism when the whole society was wrong.  

    I cant believe this and am so embarrassed that this history is absent from 20 years of education I received in Ghana right up to tertiary level. I have learnt about Winston Churchill, Mungo Park, Marco Polo, Sir Francis Drake and Christopher Columbus and how great they were. No one ever taught me about the guts of this little black kid and what she had to endure…
    And apparently she is still alive today.

    Read on please
    In 1960, a 6 year old girl, Ruby Bridges became the world symbol of the courage to learn amidst untold intimidation and hate. The US Supreme court had just ordered that all schools be desegregat

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