Ruby bridges

By keiramalee

  • Ruby Bridges was born

    she was the oldest of 5.

  • The move

  • Ruby attended a segregated New Orleans kindergarten.

    The school district created entrance exams for African American students to see whether they could compete academically at the all-white school. Ruby and five other students passed the exam.

  • At the age of six, Ruby Bridges became the first African American student to go to an elementary school in the South.

    https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruby-bridges

  • Special test

  • In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell celebrated her courage with a painting of that first day entitled, “The Problem We All Live With.”

  • marrige

  • childrens book