Ruby Bridges
Mississippi is home to many African Americans that played an important role in the desegregation factor. Ruby Bridges was one of these famous African Americans that helped to desegregate the public school system in New Orleans. Ruby Bridges, a small girl from Tylertown, Mississippi, opened the doors for many black children so that they would be provided with a good education no matter what their race may be.
Ruby Nell Bridges, a young African American girl, is from the small town of Tylertown, Mississippi. Ruby Bridges was born on September 8, 1954 .Ruby was born the same year as the Supreme Court passed the Brown v. Board of Education case. Ruby grew up on farm that her parents and grandparents sharecropped on. When Ruby was
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The people in the crowds would yell out chants, wave Confederate flags, and some would even shove an open casket meant for a child in front of her (Marty 7). Towards the end of the year, the crowds began to thin out, when many parents allowed their kids to come back to school. The next year, several African American students had enrolled to William Frantz elementary school (“Ruby Bridges”). Not only did Ruby face abuse like this, but her family faced abuse as well. Her father lost his job at the gas station, and her grandparents were taken off the farm that they sharecropped on for many years. Not only did this happen, but many of the grocery stores denied them access to shop there. This caused many of the people in the community to support them in a variety of different ways. Ruby’s second year at the elementary school, she did not have any federal marshals walk her to and from school. She had other students in her class, and the schools enrollment was up. Ruby attended William Frantz school all throughout elementary school. Ruby had finished grade school, she attended an integrated high school in New Orleans, called Francis. T. Nicholls. After she attended high school, she studied travel and tourism at the Kansas City business school. She also worked for American Express as a travel agent. William Frantz Elementary school, is now a completely dominant black school (“Ruby