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14/11/1960 The first black student ever attends all-white public school

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Nov. 14, 1960 - Ruby Bridges, Age 6, Integrates New Orleans School

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Color Barrier Breaking Student's Reunion

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Freedoms's Legacy: A Conversation with Ruby Bridges Hall

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Ruby Bridges: 6 Years Old and Desegregating a School | The Daily 360 | The New York Times

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Building Bridges - Official Trailer

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. 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 in 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With by Norman Rockwell.