Two of the other students decided not to leave their school at all the other three were sent to the all-white McDonough Elementary School. Meanwhile, the school district dragged its feet, delaying her admittance until November 14. Her father resisted, fearing for his daughter’s safety her mother, however, wanted Ruby to have the educational opportunities that her parents had been denied.
Her parents were torn about whether to let her attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School, a few blocks from their home.
Ruby and five other students passed the exam. The school district created entrance exams for African American students to see whether they could compete academically at the all-white school. A year later, however, a federal court ordered Louisiana to desegregate. Nonetheless, southern states continued to resist integration, and in 1959, Ruby attended a segregated New Orleans kindergarten. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public schools. Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v. When Ruby was two years old, her parents moved their family to New Orleans, Louisiana in search of better work opportunities.
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.īorn on September 8, 1954, Bridges was the oldest of five children for Lucille and Abon Bridges, farmers in Tylertown, Mississippi.
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