Editing Ruby Bridges (section)

==Adult life==
As of 2004, Bridges, now Ruby Bridges Hall, still lived in New Orleans with her husband, Malcolm Hall, and their four sons.<ref name="CBN"/>{{better source needed|date=March 2023}} After graduating from a desegregated high school, she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full-time parent.<ref name="Ruby Bridges"/> She is now chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which she formed in 1999 to promote "the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences". Describing the mission of the group, she says, "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."<ref name="foundation">{{cite web|url=http://www.rubybridges.org/home.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070929012417/http://www.rubybridges.org/home.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 29, 2007|title=The Ruby Bridges Foundation|access-date=November 15, 2014}}</ref>

Bridges is the subject of the [[Lori McKenna]] song "Ruby's Shoes".<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Neill|first=Bill |date=September 26, 2002 |title=Songs of kinfolk |url=https://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20020926/NEWS01/309269969 |work=Cape Cod Times |location=Hyannis, MA |access-date=November 15, 2018}}</ref> Her childhood struggle at William Frantz Elementary School was portrayed in the 1998 made-for-TV movie ''[[Ruby Bridges (film)|Ruby Bridges]]''. The young Bridges was portrayed by actress Chaz Monet, and the movie also featured [[Lela Rochon]] as Bridges's mother, Lucille "Lucy" Bridges; [[Michael Beach]] as Bridges's father, Abon Bridges; [[Penelope Ann Miller]] as Bridges's teacher, Mrs. Henry; and [[Kevin Pollak]] as Dr. Robert Coles.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138068/?ref_=nv_sr_1 |title=Ruby Bridges |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.imdb.com|access-date=November 15, 2018}}</ref>

Like hundreds of thousands of others in the greater New Orleans area, Bridges lost her home (in [[Eastern New Orleans]]) to catastrophic flooding from the [[2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans|failure of the levee system during Hurricane Katrina]] in 2005.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} Hurricane Katrina also greatly damaged [[William Frantz Elementary School]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Desegregation Landmark in New Orleans Again Offers Education – and Healing {{!}} National Trust for Historic Preservation |url=https://savingplaces.org/stories/desegregation-landmark-new-orleans-education-healing |access-date=August 14, 2023 |website=National Trust for Historic Preservation |language=en-US}}</ref> and Bridges played a significant role in fighting for the school to remain open.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16636708/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/whatever-happened-ruby-bridges/#.WsKqDNPwbEY |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127011511/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16636708/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/whatever-happened-ruby-bridges#.WsKqDNPwbEY |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2017 |title=Whatever happened to Ruby Bridges? |date=January 16, 2007 |work=msnbc.com |access-date=May 6, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

In November 2007, the [[Children's Museum of Indianapolis]] unveiled a new permanent exhibit documenting her life, along with the lives of [[Anne Frank]] and [[Ryan White]]. The exhibit, called "The Power of Children: Making a Difference", cost $6 million to install and includes an authentic re-creation of Bridges's first grade classroom.<ref name="Pollack">{{cite news |last=Pollack |first=Susan R. |date=October 31, 2007 |title=The 'Power of Children' opens in Indianapolis |work=The Detroit News |location=Detroit, MI |page=Features section, 3E}}</ref>

In 2010, Bridges had a 50th year reunion at William Frantz Elementary with Pam Foreman Testroet, who had been, at the age of five, the first white child to break the boycott that ensued from Bridges's attendance at that school.<ref name="cbs" />

[[File:Ruby Bridges and Obama.jpg|right|thumb|Bridges and President [[Barack Obama]] view the [[The Problem We All Live With|painting]] by [[Norman Rockwell|Rockwell]] in the White House. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCsJ-24MdZc video])]]

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".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCsJ-24MdZc |title=Ruby Bridges visits with the President and her portrait |publisher=YouTube |date=July 15, 2011 |access-date=November 15, 2014}}</ref> The Rockwell painting was displayed in the [[West Wing]] of the White House, just outside the [[Oval Office]], from June through October 2011.<ref name="Brown">{{cite news |last=Brown |first=DeNeen L. |date=August 29, 2011 |title=Norman Rockwell painting of Bridges is on display at the White House |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/norman-rockwell-painting-of-ruby-bridges-is-on-display-at-the-white-house/2011/08/26/gIQA66QhlJ_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=November 6, 2018}}</ref>