“Happy birthday, #RubyBridges. Thank you. 🖤”

In a Q&A with Chalkbeat, Ruby Bridges-Hall talks about the state of school segregation today.

Lucille Bridges walking her Daughter Ruby Bridges to school.

Let’s continue to celebrate some trailblazing women for #BHM. ✨ At the age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of Civil Rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American to integrate an all white elementary school in the South. She was escorted to class by her mother and U.S. marshals due to violent mobs outside of the Louisiana school.

#RubyBridges A #BlackAmerican Who in 1960, Became The First Black Students To Integrate Into “William Frantz Elementary” in #NewOrleans, #Louisiana. Which What Was Previously An All White School.

Ruby Bridges, who is part of an Indianapolis Children's Museum exhibit, spoke for the 60th anniversary of her walk to integrate an all-white school.

Ruby Bridges is the first African-American child to integrate New Orleans Public Schools.

American civil rights icon Ruby Bridges will give the keynote address Monday at the annual La Crosse Community Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.