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Supreme courts bans segregation in public schools.
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Ruby was born in Missisippi, but 4 years later they moved to New Orleans.
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Rosa Parks, an African American woman, is arrested for refusing for give up her seat to a white person. Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Alabama.
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After more than a year of boycotting the buses and a legal fight, the montgomery buses desagregate.
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Federal court forced the desegregation of schools in the south.
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Ruby had her first day at Frantz Elementary School for whites in New Orleans.
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Freedon rides begin from Washington DC. Groups of black and white people ride buses through the South to challenge segregation.
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Police arrested civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other ministers demostrating in Birmingham, Alabama, then turned fire hoses and police dogs on the marchers.
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President John F. Kennedy calls for Civil Rights Act.
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President John F. Kennedy (1961 - 1963) shot dead.
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"Look" magazine published Norman Rockwell's paiting "The problem we all live with".
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President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Black nationalist leader Malcolm X is murdered.
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Civil Rights Leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.
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The story of Ruby Bridges is published.
