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Ruby Bridges

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Ruby Bridges

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Also known as Ruby Bridges Hall, Ruby Nell Bridges Hall

American civil rights activist

OverviewAI-generated

Ruby Bridges is a United States citizen born in Tylertown in 1954. She is a female philanthropist and activist who speaks English. Her significant event includes the desegregation, which began in 1960. She has received the Presidential Citizens Medal and an honorary degree.

Bridges is an author with seven works, including *Ruby Bridges*, *Dear Ruby*, *Hear Our Hearts*, *Let's read about-- Ruby Bridges*, *This Is Your Time*, and *Ruby Bridges Goes To School*. Her writings are also referenced in five Crossref works. She is referenced by 858 other encyclopedia articles.

Her quotes include, "You cannot look at a person and tell whether they're good or bad," and "Racism is a grown-up disease, and we must stop using our children to spread it."

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Ruby Bridges
  • Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
  • Let's read about-- Ruby Bridges
  • This Is Your Time
  • Ruby Bridges Goes To School

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
United States
Active from
1954

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
9

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ruby+Bridges">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Ruby Bridges

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  2. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease

    · 2009 · cited 8,325x

  3. <i>Planck</i>2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters

    · 2014 · cited 5,036x

  4. Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): A reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test.

    · 1994 · cited 4,931x

  5. The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

    · 2013 · cited 4,629x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “You cannot look at a person and tell whether they're good or bad.”
  • “Racism is a grown-up disease, and we must stop using our children to spread it.”
  • “Good and evil comes in all shades and colors... evil is not prejudiced.... evil just needs an opportunity to work through you.... All of us, no matter what we look like, we all have a common enemy, and that is evil. If we don't understand that and come together, then evil will win.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born
Ruby Nell Bridges , ( 1954-09-08 ) September 8, 1954 (age 71) , Tylertown, Mississippi , U.S.
Occupations
Philanthropist activist
Spouse
Malcolm Hall
Website
www .rubybridges .com

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruby Bridges” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0