Sep 8, 2025
she just turned 71! remember that the civil rights movement is not ancient history.
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she just turned 71! remember that the civil rights movement is not ancient history.
The Problem We All Live With, 1964
Illustration for Look, January 14, 1964. Oil on canvas.
Artist: Norman Rockwell
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall: September 8, 1954
She's still here. They like to act like certain things were longer into the past than they were. Sister Ruby is still standing.
On November 14, 1960, Six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, becoming the first Black student to attend the previously all-white school. Accompanied by federal marshals and taunted by angry crowds. Ruby became a symbol of the #CivilRights movement #desegregation
Six years old. Amazing courage.