Ruby Bridges Accomplishments

Ruby Bridges is one of the very many people who has changed history. Bridges has helped desegregate schools all around the world. She still stands today, sharing her thoughts and ideas to stop racism and segregation. Ruby’s life has had many ups, and downs, but she still seems to look on the bright side in almost every situation. Whites threatened and harshly criticized brave, confident, heroic American activist, Ruby Bridges for being one of the first African-American children to enter the William Frantz Elementary School, a school for white students, which helped end segregation in schools. Without Ruby Bridges, our schools may still be segregated to this day. Ruby Bridges has made many great accomplishments that have affected our

As William Frantz Elementary School was integrating, Ruby Bridges was not frightened by the crowd of white racists who refused to integrate, she responded with grace and spirit, making her a national symbol of the civil rights movement. Later, integration became a part of everyday life, more and more people began to accept the joining of both black and white students in one school. In Ruby’s adulthood, she found herself as a short-term guardian for her four nieces after her brother’s death in 1993. Ruby's nieces attended William Frantz Elementary School, Bridges was then began getting involved at Frantz. This led her to become a parent liaison volunteer for the school. Ruby Bridges has accomplished many achievements in her life. In 1996, Ruby Bridges carried the torch during the Olympic torch relay in New Orleans, Disney also made a story reflecting Ruby Bridges life in 1998. She wrote a memoir, Through My Eyes, which was released in 1999, that same year the Ruby Bridges Foundation was established. The foundation promotes the values of tolerance, appreciation of all differences, and respect for others, and the goal of The Ruby Bridges Foundation is to

On her first day of school, Ruby, with her mother beside her, was escorted by four marshals due to the angry whites who were protesting and yelling at 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, she walked through the entire crowd of whites without being intimidated. However, she only became startled when she had seen a woman waving a black baby doll placed in a tiny coffin in the air. Ruby and her mother spent her first day at school in the principal’s office due to the chaos throughout the school. Many parents took their children out of William Frantz Elementary School, some parents took their children out permanently. During the year, a rumor that Ruby might be poisoned spread like wildfire throughout the school, keeping her off the playground and out of the school cafeteria where other students ate lunch. The Bridges family was affected immensely by Ruby’s appearance at William Frantz Elementary School. Abon, Ruby's father, lost his job because whites had threatened to boycott the business where he worked, and many grocery stores refused to welcome Lucille, Ruby’s mother, as a customer. Furthermore, Ruby's grandparents were evicted from their farm. Although there were a few families who gave support to the Bridges family, some helped the family by giving Abon a job opportunity as a house painter and neighbors offered to babysit the Bridges' children.