Editing Ruby Bridges (section)

==Early life==
Bridges was the eldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.<ref name="Ruby Bridges">{{cite web |url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruby-bridges |title=Ruby Bridges |last=Michals |first=Debra |date=2015 |website=National Women's History Museum |language=en |access-date=November 15, 2018}}</ref> As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings,<ref name="Nell">{{cite web |url=http://rubybridges.com:80/story.htm |title=The Education of Ruby Nell |last=Bridges Hall |first=Ruby |date=March 2000 |access-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511010423/http://rubybridges.com/story.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2012 |publisher=as published in Guideposts |url-status=dead }}</ref> though she also enjoyed playing jump rope and softball and climbing trees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.childrensmuseum.org/blog/10-facts-about-ruby-bridges |title=10 Facts about Ruby Bridges {{!}} The Children's Museum of Indianapolis |website=www.childrensmuseum.org |access-date=May 6, 2018}}</ref> When she was four years old, the family relocated from [[Tylertown, Mississippi]], where Bridges was born, to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]. In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents responded to a request from the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father was hesitant.<ref>{{cite book |title=Through my eyes |url=https://archive.org/details/throughmyeyes00brid_0 |url-access=registration |last=Bridges |first=Ruby |publisher=Scholastic Press |year=1999 |isbn=0545708036 |edition=1st |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/throughmyeyes00brid_0/page/11 11] |oclc=981760257}}</ref>