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American civil rights activist (born )

For the television film, see Ruby Bridges (film).

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, ) is an American civil rights activist.

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She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, ^[1][2][3] She is the subject of a painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Early life

Bridges was the eldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.^[4] As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings,^[5] though she also enjoyed playing jump rope and softball and climbing trees.^[6] When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Bridges was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana.

In , when she was six years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Associ