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Hello, Can the page please be updated? Here is one link (of many reporting right now):

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/03/27/removal-ruby-bridges-film-pinellas-school-sparks-outrage/ Lazurshetrodyne (talk) 16:43, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello! This is to let editors know that File:US Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for September 8, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-09-08. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. This is for her 70th birthday. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.7% of all FPs. 07:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend the formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. Bridges attended a segregated kindergarten in 1959. In early 1960, she was one of six black children in New Orleans to pass the test that determined whether they could go to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Two of the six decided to stay at their old school, Bridges went to Frantz by herself, and three children (Gail Etienne, Leona Tate and Tessie Prevost) were transferred to the all-white McDonogh No. 19 Elementary School. All four 6-year-old girls were escorted to and from school by federal marshals due to crowds of angry protestors opposing school integration.

Photograph credit: United States Department of Justice; restored by Adam Cuerden