Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges was born in Mississippi in 1954. She was raised on a farm during hard times and was moved to the city at a young age in pursuit of opportunity. In 1960 the black kindergarteners in the city took a test to see if they would be move to a white school and Ruby passed. When she arrived there was a mob of angry protestors there yelling, she had to be escorted into the school building by state marshals. When she got into the school all of the white parents took their kids out and ruby was the only one in the school. Finally school year over the course of the school year increasing numbers of the kids started coming back until the class was back until the attendance record had returned to normality.