Is Ruby Bridges Still Alive In 2020

She s in her 60s now younger than marilee s grandparents.

Is ruby bridges still alive in 2020. She was the first african american child to desegregate william frantz elementary school. Nbc s martin savidge reports. Bridges now ruby bridges hall still lives in new orleans with her husband malcolm hall and their four sons. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south.

At six years old ruby s bravery helped pave the way for civil rights action in the american south. She later became a civil rights activist. Ruby bridges is still alive. Forty six years after integrating a new orleans elemtary school ruby bridges is back this time on her own accord to save the school.

Ruby nell bridges hall is an american hero. After graduating from a desegregated high school she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full time parent. She is now chair of the ruby bridges foundation which she formed in 1999 to promote the values of tolerance respect and appreciation of all differences.