Today Is Ruby Bridges Still Alive

Ruby nell bridges hall is an american hero.

Today is ruby bridges still alive.

A book about her experience at william frantz titled the story of ruby bridges was published in 1995. With the group ruby travels the country advocating the importance of education and integration to students. She runs the ruby bridges foundation to help troubled children at william frantz and other schools. Ruby the eldest among her five siblings was born on a lower middle class family working to make their ends meet.

Bridges now ruby bridges hall still lives in new orleans with her husband malcolm hall and their four sons. At six years old ruby s bravery helped pave the way for civil rights action in the american south. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. Ruby bridges in full ruby nell bridges married name ruby bridges hall born september 8 1954 tylertown mississippi u s american activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of african american students to integrate schools in the american south.

But the contribution of ruby remained immortal in the history books. She is now chair of the ruby bridges foundation which she formed in 1999 to promote the values of tolerance respect and appreciation of all differences. She later became a civil rights activist. The family life of ruby was just like every other black family back in the days.

Ruby was born on september 8 1954 to abon and lucille bridges in tylertown mississippi. After graduating from a desegregated high school she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full time parent. Ruby still lives in new orleans. Still alive and active at age 64.

Nbc s martin savidge reports. Forty six years after integrating a new orleans elemtary school ruby bridges is back this time on her own accord to save the school.