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Born	Ruby Nell Bridges (1954-09-08) September 8, 1954 (age 70) Tylertown, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation	Philanthropist, activist

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist.

She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Early life

Bridges was the eldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.

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As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings, though she also enjoyed playing jump rope and softball and climbing trees. When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Bridges was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 1960, when she was six years ol