Hello! My name is Ruby Bridges and I was born September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi. 

I am the oldest out of 4 siblings.

My parents, Lucille and Abon Bridges are farmers and decided to move from Mississippi to New Orleans for a better job opportunity. I was only 2 years old when we moved.

New Orleans

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When I was 6 years old the supreme court pass a law called Brown v. the board of education. Which ended the racial segregation and it would allow kids like me to attend any public school no matter what your color skin is.  

I became the first African American to attend a all white elementary school when I was only 6 years old. 

This is me on my way to school. 

My parents worried about my safety since it was really dangerous sending me to that school.  There was a lot of people who refuse and protest because they did not wanted to allowed African American students to incorporate in an all white school's.

Luckily the police department send officers to take me and bring me safe back home. 

This is me walking into William Frantz Elementary School, being the only African American in the whole entire school. 

It was hard at first attending William Frantz Elementary since in my classroom it was only me and professor Barbara Henry.

 I would ate lunch alone and had no friends, but Professor Henry would play with me at recess most of the time. Many parents withdrew their children because they refuse to accept me in the school. 

Many people would protest outside the school and yelled mean things to me.

This is my mom and me, walking to school, while people are protesting. 

My parents suffer discrimination because they enrolled me in a school where only white color skin students could attend. 

My dad was fired from his job. 

Many stores denied selling to my mother.

My grandparents were evicted from the farm where they had lived for a quarter- century.

This is photo of my parents and me when I was really little.