Ruby Bridges Today Video

Ruby bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school.

Ruby bridges today video. Rockwell and civil rights in the 1960 s leaving behind his beloved storytellin. She later became a civil rights activist. Now she teaches children to get past racial differences. In a recent tweet hoda wrote ruby.

For more information visit. To commemorate the. Ruby bridges american activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of african american students to integrate schools in the american south. This social studies video for children shares the braver.

Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. Ruby bridges is one of usa today s women of the century. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Civil rights leader ruby bridges remembers integrating the new orleans school system in 1960 and the lessons of racial justice that her teacher and dr.

Learn more about bridges s life and accomplishments in this article. She was the first african american child to desegregate the all white william frantz elementary school in louisiana during the new orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 november 1960. In a video.