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 November 14, 1960.
What you are seeing in the video playing below is the extent of the Federal might in a full display so that 6 years old Ruby Bridges can attend an all-white Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown vs The Board of Education which ordered all schools to desegregate. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had no alternative but sent Federal Marshalls to accompany little Ruby to school, every day, beginning from November 14, 1960. In spite of all the odds that the minority population faces and the decades-old civil rights abuse and racial tensions, the Ruby Bridges story can only happen in America. And that's thanks to the rule of law.
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