sep 8, 1954 - Ruby Bridges
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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall 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 in 1960. Due to violent mobs, she was escorted to school by her mother and U.S marshals.
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