Ruby Bridges: Ending Segregation In Schools

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Ruby Bridges was a young American activist who had created open rail ways for all African American children and ending segregation in schools. Ruby opened railways because she was smarter than all the students in black schools so she had to integrate to a white school. She suffered from many threats from the white protesters. Also, Ruby’s family lost jobs and friends from the coincidence. Ruby was the first african american to accommodate

Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 18,1954 to the town of Tylertown,Mississippi. At the age of six Ruby was integrated into a white school. Her original school gave her a test and she was more agile than most of the other students. Ruby’s first day at William Frantz Elementary School (A white school

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