Ruby Nell Bridges (wife Ruby Bridges Hall), born September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi, is an American known to be the first African-American child to enter a school for white children in 1960, during the time of school segregation officially ends in the United States. On her first day of school, she was escorted by the police as many racist demonstrators hostile to desegregation were protesting against the fact that a "colored" child went to a "white" school. His image has passed on to posterity thanks to Norman Rockwell's painting: The Problem We All Live With.
