Ruby Bridges Educational Foundation

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Ruby bridges educational foundation.

The ruby bridges foundation had a vision to give kids an equal opportunity to succeed. In 2009 she published the children s book ruby bridges goes to school. Ruby s story ruby nell bridges was born in tylertown mississippi in 1954 the same year as the landmark brown v board of education decision. She was the first african american child to desegregate the all white william frantz elementary school in louisiana during the new orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 november 1960.

Her memoir through my eyes was released in 1999 the same year that she established the ruby bridges foundation which used educational initiatives to promote tolerance and unity among schoolchildren. A lifelong activist for racial equality in 1999 ruby established the ruby bridges foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. In 2000 she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in washington dc. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell.

Bridges was inspired following the murder of her youngest brother malcolm bridges in a drug related killing in. She began to accomplish her vision at william frantz by opening an after school multi cultural art club. She then went to other schools to promote cultural understanding through community service so that racism can hopefully be eliminated.