SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Ruby Bridges

1954 - Today

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Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruby Bridges is the 512th most popular social activist (up from 524th in 2019), the 7,605th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,519th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Ruby Bridges ranks 512 out of 840. Before her are Christine Delphy, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Doina Cornea, Stephen Mallory, Urani Rumbo, and Lucy Stone. After her are Ernestine Rose, Micaela Bastidas, Estela de Carlotto, Teuku Umar, Hawa Abdi, and Katie Eder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ruby Bridges ranks 349. Before her are Dietrich Thurau, Huub Rothengatter, Andrzej Lepper, Robert Carradine, Jaak Uudmäe, and Erwin Wurm. After her are Mark Lindsay Chapman, Ruslan Aushev, Brad Cooper, Ephrem M'Bom, Aristides Gomes, and Harvey Fierstein.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ruby Bridges ranks 7,607 out of 20,380. Before her are Courtney Thorne-Smith (1967), Isabel Briggs Myers (1897), Alice Kober (1906), Rod Serling (1924), Janis Paige (1922), and Francis Spellman (1889). After her are Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Forest Ray Moulton (1872), Regis Philbin (1931), Edmund Wilson (1895), Margaret Harwood (1885), and George Kennan (1845).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Ruby Bridges ranks 71. Before her are William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Tarana Burke (1973), Sam Childers (1963), Medgar Evers (1925), and Lucy Stone (1818). After her are Katie Eder (1950), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), Abraham Flexner (1866), Dorothea Dix (1802), Lucy Parsons (1853), and Roger Stone (1952).

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