Is Ruby Bridges Still Alive In 2020

Forty six years after integrating a new orleans elemtary school ruby bridges is back this time on her own accord to save the school.

Is ruby bridges still alive in 2020. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. Nbc s martin savidge reports. Ruby bridges is still alive. After graduating from a desegregated high school she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full time parent.

She was the first african american child to desegregate william frantz elementary school. She s in her 60s now younger than marilee s grandparents. At six years old ruby s bravery helped pave the way for civil rights action in the american south. Ruby bridges in full ruby nell bridges married name ruby bridges hall born september 8 1954 tylertown mississippi u s american activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of african american students to integrate schools in the american south.

July 8 2020 in this week s podcast i interviewed all three of our kids about their experiences over the past few years of reading diverse books traveling to museums and historic sites in civil rights history. Ruby nell bridges hall is an american hero. She is now chair of the ruby bridges foundation which she formed in 1999 to promote the values of tolerance respect and appreciation of all differences.