Ruby Bridges Educational Foundation

Bridges was inspired following the murder of her youngest brother malcolm bridges in a drug related killing in.

Ruby bridges educational foundation.

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 then went to other schools to promote cultural understanding through community service so that racism can hopefully be eliminated. Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist.

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. The education of ruby nell ruby bridges foundation 2000. The ruby bridges foundation had a vision to give kids an equal opportunity to succeed. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell.

In 2000 she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in washington dc. Her memoir through my eyes was released in 1999 the same year that she established the ruby bridges foundation which used educational initiatives to promote tolerance and unity among schoolchildren. In 2009 she published the children s book ruby bridges goes to school.