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Ruby Bridges 1897 - 1973

Ruby Bridges of Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana was born on February 21, 1897, and died at age 76 years old in October 1973.

Ruby Bridges
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Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana 47802
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February 21, 1897
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October 1973
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In 1897, in the year that Ruby Bridges was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1939, when she was 42 years old, in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.
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Bridges, Ruby Bridges, Ruby (May 23, 1907 - Apr 1985) Bridges, Ruby (Mar 8, 1932 - Feb 18, 2003) Bridges, Ruby (Dec 15, 1919 - Jan 14, 1988) Bridges, Ruby (Feb 14, 1909 - Sep 1, 1989) Bridges, Ruby (Apr 23, 1928 - Jun 30, 2004) Bridges, Ruby (Sep 5, 1920 - Aug 17, 1998) Bridges, Ruby (Dec 5, 1914 - Jan 29, 1990) Bridges, Ruby (Mar 27, 1918 - Mar 7, 1997) Bridges, Ruby (Feb 10, 1923 - Feb 1993)
Bridges, Ruby (May 29, 1911 - Feb 6, 1997) Bridges, Ruby (Sep 22, 1924 - Dec 1976) Bridges, Ruby (May 3, 1926 - Apr 27, 2001) Bridges, Ruby (Sep 30, 1934 - May 8, 2005) Bridges, Ruby (Oct 5, 1912 - Sep 26, 1995) Bridges, Ruby (Nov 13, 1925 - Feb 18, 1999) Bridges, Ruby (Jun 25, 1904 - Jun 1982) Bridges, Ruby (Nov 11, 1913 - May 3, 1997) Bridges, Ruby (Jan 1, 1918 - Aug 1986) Bridges, Ruby (Jul 16, 1908 - Feb 2, 2005)

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Bridges, Amanda (Born 1859) Bridges, Harry (Born Jun 1, 1872) Bridges, Lera (Born Jul 29, 1893) Bridges, Mary (Born Mar 29, 1835) Bridges, Inez (Born Mar 5, 1906) Bridges, Henry (Born Feb 25, 1831) Bridges, Mary E (Born Mar 29, 1835) Bridges-Ireland, Abbie (Born 1880) Bridges, James (Born Oct 4, 1919) Bridges, Webster (Mar 19, 1902 - Jan 1983)
Bridges, Irene (Mar 6, 1906 - Nov 12, 1989) Bridges, Elizabeth (Nov 12, 1907 - Aug 1982) Bridges, Ethel (Mar 15, 1896 - Sep 1975) Bridges, Lester (Apr 1, 1906 - May 1987) Bridges, Robert (Jun 16, 1914 - Apr 1981) Bridges, Robert (Apr 19, 1925 - Oct 1983) Bridges, Irene (Mar 15, 1928 - Mar 27, 1992) Bridges, Olive (Dec 6, 1925 - Aug 1983) Bridges, Thomas (Dec 26, 1906 - Feb 15, 1996) Bridges, Libby (Jun 27, 1947 - Aug 1980)
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