Ruby bridges was six when she became the first african american child to integrate a white southern elementary school.
Ruby bridges story for kids.
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.
Ruby bridges grew up on a small farm in tylertown mississippi.
Two years later a test was given to the city s african american schoolchildren to determine which students could enter all white schools.
When ruby was four years old her family moved to new orleans.
Her parents were sharecroppers meaning they farmed the land but didn t own it.
When she was four years old her family moved to new orleans.
On november 14 1960 she was escorted to class by her mother and u s.