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Ruby Bridges
Also known as Ruby Bridges Hall, Ruby Nell Bridges Hall
American civil rights activist
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- Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts
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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.
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