Ruby Bridges | A Simple Act of Courage

Left, October 4, 1954 - Baltimore, Maryland: Request for isolation of the school. Approximately 2,000 white teenagers brought posters to protest the national unity parade at the city hall and talked with mayor Mayor Thomas de Alesandro. Approximately 50 people in Vanguard entered the building, but soon they were dismantled by the police. Image Source: Bettmann / Corbis

After the Federal Court ordered the elimination of the separation of public schools, the 6-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges Center was the first African-American child to attend William Franz elementary school in New Orleans. Image Source: Bettmann / Corbis

Yes, with Ruby Bridge entering the William Franz School of New Orleans on November 28, 1960, accompanied by a lawyer in the United States, I returned to class after a week of vacation. According to the report today, only 7 white children were brought to these two new schools. Image Source: AP Images

In 1995, Ruby Bridge child psychologist Robert Cole, who received the Pulitzer Prize, issued a "Ruby Bridge Story", a child's picture book depicting her brave story. Shortly thereafter, Franz 's school teacher, the first year at Barbara Henry, contacted Bridges who met Oprah Winfrey performances again. Ruby Bridge grew up in Mississippi shared farm and her parents and grandparents. When she was 4 years old, her parents Abbon and Lucille Bridge moved to New Orleans, hoping to live a better life in a larger city. Her father found a job as a gas station attendant, and her mother worked at night shift to help their growing family. Soon, young rubies have two younger brothers and one younger sister.

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 was 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.

Bridges Hall is the theme of Lori McKenna's song "Ruby's Shoes". Her childhood fight at William · Franz Elementary School was painted in 1998 movie "Ruby Bridge". Young Ruby Bridges are played by Lela Rochon as Ruby 's mother Lucille "Lucy" Bridges, Michael Beach by Ruby' s father Abon Bridges, Penelope Ann Miller by Mrs. Henry Mrs. Kevin, actress Chaz Monet. Dr. Robert Coles, Dr. Polak. Like thousands of New Orleans' thousands, Bridge Hall lost her house due to the dam system collapsed during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (eastern New Orleans), devastating floods lost. Hurricane Katrina also seriously hurt William Franz Elementary School and Ruby playing an important role in keeping the school open.