Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist.
Ruby bridges story for kids.
In new orleans ruby lived in a small apartment where she shared a bedroom with her sister and two younger brothers.
Her parents were sharecroppers meaning they farmed the land but didn t own it.
Bridges was the eldest of eight children born into poverty in the state of mississippi.
Ruby bridges grew up on a small farm in tylertown mississippi.
When she was four years old her family moved to new orleans.
Two years later a test was given to the city s african american schoolchildren to determine which students could enter all white schools.
Ruby bridges was six when she became the first african american child to integrate a white southern elementary school.