Ruby Bridges Educational Foundation

The education of ruby nell ruby bridges foundation 2000.
Ruby bridges educational foundation. Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist. In 2009 she published the children s book ruby bridges goes to school. She began to accomplish her vision at william frantz by opening an after school multi cultural art club. A lifelong activist for racial equality in 1999 ruby established the ruby bridges foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education.
In 1999 bridges formed the ruby bridges foundation headquartered in new orleans. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. The ruby bridges foundation had a vision to give kids an equal opportunity to succeed. In 2000 she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in washington dc.
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. Bridges was inspired following the murder of her youngest brother malcolm bridges in a drug related killing in. Her grandparents were sharecroppers but like many.