Ruby bridges was one of the first African American to do what
Ruby Bridges. Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American activist known for being the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
Ruby Bridges was 6 when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school.