Ruby Bridges Online

Expand product details on november 14 1960 a tiny six year old black child surrounded by federal marshals walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school.

Ruby bridges online. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist. But guided by the love of her mother and father ruby s heroic struggle for a better education becomes a lesson for us all. At the tender age of six ruby bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in november 1960 when she became the first african american student to integrate an elementary school in the south.

It requires preparation prior to showing so i read biographies about martin luther king jr rosa parks and ruby bridges first so that students understand what was happening at the time and then show the movie. Ruby bridges is a disney tv movie written by toni ann johnson about bridges experience as the first black child to integrate an all white southern elementary school. 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. Disney s ruby bridges is a great movie and i show it every year when teaching about the civil rights movement to third graders.

This is ruby bridges 1998 no vimeo by misses r on vimeo the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Born on september 8 1954 bridges was the oldest of five children for lucille and abon bridges farmers in tylertown mississippi. When bright six year old ruby is chosen to be the first african american to integrate her local new orleans elementary school she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time. The year is 1960 and six year old ruby bridges and her family have recently moved from mississippi to new orleans in search of a better life.