She was not allowed to go to the cafeteria or outside for recess with the other students. When she needed to use the restroom, she was escorted by a federal marshal. However, as the year went on, many families began to send their children back to school and the protests and civil disturbances stopped. Ruby had paved the way for other African American children! Through education, the Ruby Bridges Foundation strives to end racism.
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He saw Bridges once a week either at school or at her home. During these sessions, he would just let her talk about what she was experiencing. Sometimes his wife came too and, like Dr.
Coles, she was very caring toward Bridges. Coles later wrote a series of articles for Atlantic Monthly and eventually a series of books on how children handle change, including a children's book on Bridges' experience.
Near the end of the first year, things began to settle down. A few white children in Bridges' grade returned to the school. Occasionally, Bridges got a chance to visit with them. By her own recollection many years later, Bridges was not that aware of the extent of the racism that erupted over her attending the school.
But when another child rejected Bridges' friendship because of her race, she began to slowly understand. By Bridges' second year at Frantz School, it seemed everything had changed. Henry's contract wasn't renewed, and so she and her husband returned to Boston. There were also no more federal marshals; Bridges walked to school every day by herself. There were other students in her second-grade class, and the school began to see full enrollment again.
No one talked about the past year. It seemed everyone wanted to put the experience behind them. Bridges finished grade school and graduated from the integrated Francis T. Nicholls High School in New Orleans. She then studied travel and tourism at the Kansas City business school and worked for American Express as a world travel agent. She later became a full-time parent to their four sons. The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, now owns the painting as part of its permanent collection.
In , the museum loaned the work to be displayed in the West Wing of the White House for four months upon the request of President Barack Obama. In , Robert Coles, Bridges' child psychologist and a Pulitzer-Prize winning author, published The Story of Ruby Bridges, a children's picture book depicting her courageous story.
Bridges was inspired following the murder of her youngest brother, Malcolm Bridges, in a drug-related killing in — which brought her back to her former elementary school. She soon began to volunteer there three days a week and soon became a parent-community liaison. With Bridges' experience as a liaison at the school and her reconnection with influential people in her past, she began to see a need for bringing parents back into the schools to take a more active role in their children's education.
Bridges launched her foundation to promote the values of tolerance, respect and appreciation of differences. Through education and inspiration, the foundation seeks to end racism and prejudice. As its motto goes, "Racism is a grown-up disease, and we must stop using our children to spread it. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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