Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Turned 64!

Ruby Bridge is the first black student to attend Southern Integrated School and is celebrating her 64th birthday this weekend.

At the age of 6, the bridge was learned at a white school in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 14, 1960. Hundreds of white people got angry to protest and gathered outside, so she was escorted to William Franz Elementary School by four federal police officers.

At only six years of age Ruby Bridge - Hall decided her name in history and became the first African American crossing the wall in the southern province. #FreedomForward pic.twitter.com/PvpOQPCCp2

This painting drew a true American hero, Ruby Bridge, held at William Franz Public School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960, and changed the history.

Bridge was born on September 8, 1954. She told the Essence in 2009 that she remembers the moment in history even though she recalls that she is in the procession.

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"You have to remember that I am a 6-year-old child," she said. "Especially in African-American homes you have been seen most of the time and have never heard of it.The parents never let you sit and explain this to a 6-year-old child Can you explain that it is not getting worse? I was told to go to a new school, but that's it. "

Ruby Bridge 's sixth birthday was the first black child to integrate white schools in the United States at the age of six. pic.twitter.com/Xwvm10aYpx

Ruby Bridge was the first black child who took part in the Southern White Public Elementary School and was born this day. She is 64 years old. pic.twitter.com/SGSKDXeRYh

A powerful girl wishes for a birthday to Ruby Bridges! In 1960, when New Orleans canceled apartheid at William Franz Elementary School, she had to escort the bridge with the US Marshall.

Ruby Bridges, the perfect Ruby Nell Bridges, is a name Ruby Bridges-Hall (Tylertown, Miss, 8 September 1954), an American activist, a symbol of the civil rights movement, the most at the age of six young. A group of African-American students integrated the school in the southern United States of America. The bridge was the largest of the eight children and was born in poverty in the state of Mississippi. When she was 4 years old, her family moved to New Orleans. Two years later, African-American school-age children in this city were tested to determine which students can enroll in all white schools. The bridge passed the test and was chosen to enter William Franz Elementary School in the city. Her father initially objected to her going to a white school, but the mother of the bridge persuaded him to bring the bridge to school.

On the road to civil rights, even children were public figures, like the six-year-old Ruby Bridge, which integrated the whole white primary school of New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Four years later, Norman Rockwell painted her bravery with a picture entitled "Problems living together". Just walking to school was escorted by the Federal Marshal. Episode 5: excitement! It includes historical shots of Ruby Bridges talking to her on the first day of school and today. Six years ago, after decades of fighting, the National Color Improvement Association won a major legal victory at the Supreme Court as represented by Thurgood Marshall, then a lawyer at the time. At Brown and the Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared that the doctrine of a single but equivalent school is unconstitutional. After years of ruling, the South refused consolidation. Ruby became one of the six New Orleans children who chose to classify several white schools in the city.

Indeed, in the same year that Ruby Bridge was born, the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decided to classify schools. It was a clear coincidence of her early involvement in civil rights activities. When Ruby went to kindergarten, she was one of many African-American students in New Orleans who was elected to take an exam to decide whether she could attend a white school did. The students are very angry because it is said that the test is particularly difficult to write. The idea is that the schools in New Orleans may be isolated for a while if all African American children fail the exam. Ruby is only 5 blocks from Whole White School, but she enrolled in a school of black alley in a kindergarten several miles away.