Editing Ruby Bridges (section)

{{Short description|American civil rights activist (born 1954)}}
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{{Infobox person
|name            = Ruby Bridges
|birth_name      = Ruby Nell Bridges
|image           = File:Ruby Bridges (16264182739).jpg
|caption         = Bridges speaking at [[Texas A&M University–Commerce]] in February 2015
|birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1954|09|08}}
|birth_place     = [[Tylertown, Mississippi]], U.S.
|occupation      = Philanthropist, activist
|years_active    = 
|spouse          = Malcolm Hall
|children        = 4
|website         = {{URL|www.rubybridges.com}}
}}

'''Ruby Nell Bridges Hall''' (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the [[List of African American firsts|first African American]] child to attend formerly [[White people|whites]]-only [[William Frantz Elementary School]] in [[Louisiana]] during the [[New Orleans school desegregation crisis]] on November 14, 1960.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=James |last2=Byrne |first2=Dara N. |year=2004 |title=The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of Education |location=Hoboken, NJ |publisher=J. Wiley & Sons |page=169 |isbn=9780471649267 |oclc=53038681}}</ref><ref name="cbs">{{cite news |first=Michelle |last=Miller |title=Ruby Bridges, Rockwell Muse, Goes Back to School |url= https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ruby-bridges-rockwell-muse-goes-back-to-school/ |work=CBS Evening News with Katie Couric |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc. |date=November 12, 2010 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/14/us/ruby-bridges-desegregation-60-years-trnd/index.html|title = 60 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked to school and showed how even first graders can be trailblazers| date=November 14, 2020 }}</ref> She is the subject of a 1964 painting, ''[[The Problem We All Live With]]'', by [[Norman Rockwell]].