Ruby Bridges Accomplishments

Born the same year as the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education case, Ruby Bridges has been recognized as the youngest civil rights activists in history. She is an inspiration to children and adults all over the world.She has taught the world that strength and goodwill knows no age. Through the examination of accomplishments of Ruby Bridges, her influences on the United States, especially the right for schools to become desegregated and black rights becomes abundantly clear.
Ruby’s life was not easy, she had many struggles when she was young. On September 8, 1954, the first child to be born into the Bridges family was Ruby Nell Bridges, her father was Abon Bridges and her mother was Lucille Bridges (Integration). The poverty-stricken family

Ultimately the crowds diminished in numbers, as the year went Ruby started confining to Mrs.Henry and her psychologist Robert Coles(“Ruby Bridges American”). Ruby admitted to them that she said a prayer before and after school for the people in the crowd: “Please, God, try to forgive those people. Because even if they say those bad things, they don't know what they're doing. So You could forgive them, just like you did those folks along time ago when they said terrible things about You”(Coles 23). Toward the end of the year two white boys joined Ruby’s class(Coles 25). At the start of second grade the crowds disappeared completely and she had twenty students in her next class(“The Famous People”). Parents of all the children had gotten weary with their children not getting an education so, they took matters to the federal judge, in hopes that schools in New Orleans could be integrated. One parent said “We’ve been sitting back and letting our children get cheated out of an education because some people have tried to take the law into their own hands”(Coles 25). This shows that one little girl changed the course of everyone's education and life for the

In 1999 Ruby Bridges founded the Ruby Bridges educational foundation(Coles 25). The purpose of the foundation was to improve parent involvement in schools in pursuance of supporting and educating the children as well as to help stop racism and promote equal rights(“The Famous People”). The motto of the foundation was: “Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it”(“Bio”). The reason Ruby started that foundation is because in 1993 Ruby's brother Milton passed away. Ruby and Malcolm adopted his four daughters and put them in the William Frantz Elementary School, Ruby volunteered there are three times a week and became a community liaison(“The Famous People”). She started to notice issues with children and adults in urban areas comparable to how it was when she was younger. The neighborhood that surrounded the William Frantz Elementary School had a lot of poverty along with high crime rates, she got afraid that it would be segregated again. She opened up an after school multi-cultural art club in the elementary school while she worked she was inspired by the kids to start the Ruby Bridges foundation. Ruby and her first grade teacher Mrs. Henry go to visit other schools to teach children about racism(Singh). Ruby has always been a great supporter for her community unaccountably during the integration