Ruby Bridges: A Story of Courage and Change is a powerful narrative about a young girl's extraordinary journey in 1960 when she became the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. This inspiring story of courage and determination follows Ruby
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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall 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.