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          Ruby Bridges

          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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          6. 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