May this dress remind us to be BRAVE like Ruby Bridges!!

Ruby Bridge's story has blown me away!! <3

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 in 1960.^[1][2]

Ruby Bridges was the oldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.^[3] As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings,^[4] though she also enjoyed playing jump rope, softball and climbing trees.^[5] When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Ruby was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system, even though her father was hesitant.^[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges

Another informative and entertaining write-up about Ruby Bridges:
Because of Them We Can®
Another good read about Ruby:
At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.MLA - Michals, Debra. "Ruby Bridges." National Women's History Museum. National Women's History Museum, 2015. Date accessed. Chicago - Michals, Debra. "Ruby Bridges." National Women's History Museum." 2015. www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruby-bridges.

Racism is a grown-up disease and 

we must stop using our children to spread it.

Ruby Bridges

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