Editing Ruby Bridges (section)

==Background==
Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' was decided three months and twenty-two days before Bridges's birth.<ref name="Council">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html |title=The Aftermath – Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand" {{!}} Exhibitions – Library of Congress |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=[[Library of Congress]] |date=November 13, 2004 |language=en |access-date=May 6, 2018}}</ref> The court ruling declared that the establishment of separate public schools for white children, which black children were barred from attending, was unconstitutional; accordingly, black students were permitted to attend such schools. Though the ''Brown v. Board of Education'' decision was finalized in 1954, southern states were extremely resistant to the decision that they must integrate within six years.<ref name="Ruby Bridges"/> Many white people did not want schools to be integrated and, though it was a federal ruling, state governments were not doing their part in enforcing the new laws. In 1957, federal troops were ordered to [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], to escort the [[Little Rock Nine]] students in combating violence that occurred following the decision.<ref name="Council"/> Under significant pressure from the federal government, the [[Orleans Parish School Board]] administered an entrance exam to students at Bridges's school with the intention of keeping black children out of white schools.