This is an image Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old black girl who was one of six individuals chosen to integrate schools in 1960. Due to Ruby being one of the first to integrate her school,William Frantz Public School, her father lost his job and several whites pulled their children out of school. Ruby's first day at school being escorted by U.S Marshall's sent waves among the nation and inspired one of the most famous paintings of all American culture. Ruby completed the first grade later that year, all alone in a class of just one.
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Norman Rockwell painting for Ruby Bridges the day she was the first child to desegregate an elementary school.
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PBS (Public Broadcast System) in 1997 interviewed Ruby Bridges - Hall on her experience in 1960. She was as previously noted the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school. Below is a link to the transcript of the interview.
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