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Ruby Bridges

American civil rights activist (born 1954)

For the 1998 television film, see Ruby Bridges (film).

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.[1][2][3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Early life

Bridges was the eldest of five children born to Abon and Lucille Bridges.[4] As a child, she spent much time taking care of her younger siblings,[5] though she also enjoyed playing jump rope and softball and climbing trees.[6] When she was four years old, the family relocated from Tylertown, Mississippi, where Bridges was born, to New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, when she was six years old, her parents responded to a request from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and volunteered her t

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Bobby Nail

American bridge player

George Robert Nail (April 21, 1925 – May 25, 1995)[1] was an American bridge player and a club owner and teacher in Houston, Texas.[2][3][4]

Nail was born in Kansas City, Missouri, with the congenital bone disorder osteogenesis imperfecta. In the 1960s he moved to Houston, where he operated Nail's Bridge Center with his wife Betty until his death.[2][3][4] He died of a heart attack on May 25, 1995, survived by his wife and a sister.[2]

Nail won four American Contract Bridge Leaguenational championships and placed second eleven times. He represented the United States twice in the Bermuda Bowl, finishing second in 1963.[4] He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2001.[5] The Nail Life Master Open Pairs event is named after him.

Nail and Robert Stucker invented the Big Diamond bidding system and presented it in the 1965 book Revolution in Bridge. A major departure from Standard American bidding concepts of the day, it featured a weak

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George Robert Nail (April 1925, 4 - May 21, 1995) e ne e le sebapali sa borokho sa Amerika, mong'a sehlopha le mosuoe Houston, Texas.
Nail o hlahetse Kansas City, Missouri ka lefu la congenital bone osteogenesis imperfecta. Lilemong tsa bo-1960 o ile a fallela Houston, moo eena le mosali oa hae Betty ba neng ba sebetsa Nails Bridge Center ho fihlela lefung la hae. O ile a bolaoa ke lefu la pelo ka la 1995 May, 5, a pholosoa ke mosali oa hae le khaitseli ea hae.
Nail e hapile litlholisano tsa naha tse 'ne tsa American Contract Bridge League' me ea qeta ea bobeli makhetlo a 4. O ile a emela United States ka makhetlo a mabeli, a qeta oa bobeli Bermuda Bowl ka 2, 'me a kenngoa ka har'a ACBL Hall of Fame ka 11. Ketsahalo ea Nail Life Masters Open Pairs e ile ea rehelloa ka eena.
Nail le Robert Stucker ba ile ba qapa mokhoa oa ho reka oa Big Diamond 'me ba o phatlalatsa bukeng ea bona ea 1965 Revolution in Bridge. Ho falla ho hoholo ho tloha mohopolong o tloaelehileng oa ho reka oa Amerika oa nako eo, ho ne ho e-na le lebone le fokolang la lintlha, sebaka se seholo se s

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