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Advisory Board | Message from Ruby: I want to thank you so much for all of your prayers and messages. They have been of great inspiration and strength to me and family. We safely evacuated and like many, many New Orleans’ families are in the process of slowly rebuilding our lives and anxious to get back to our homes, if possible. I regret that I am unable to directly communicate with you. --Ruby BridgesDear Friends of RubyBridges Foundation: This summer the Ruby Bridges Foundation has been reestablishing our main headquarters in New Orleans. The recent devastation of the city from Hurricane Katrina has forced us to temporarily suspend responding to email requests from our website. We recognize that schools across the nation are beginning classes and students may seek our site for research purposes. Our site and its links will remain active, we are just unable at this grave time to provide individual assistance. Please check back with us again. Thank you for your patience and especially for your prayers for all of our friends and citizens in New Orleans and the entire affected Gulf region. Thank you.
Ms. Ruby Bridges formed the foundation as a 501(c) 3 in 1999. Today it has an active board of ten members, and a new and growing National Advisory Board. Ruby’s Bridges, the foundation's first national program initiative, completed its pilot phase in the spring of 2003 with the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. A second initiative is with the William Frantz School in New Orleans – the very school Ruby integrated in 1960. This project involves having the school declared a historical site, upgrading the library, changing the name to Ruby Bridges, and establishing a Ruby’s Bridges program at the school. If you would like to know more about the Ruby Bridges Foundation or are interested in learning how you may help, please email us at info@rubybridges.org
“Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies
know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and
only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We
owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.” --Ruby
Bridges |
The Ruby Bridges
Foundation promotes and encourages the
values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences.
With the belief that prejudice and racism can be eliminated, the
Ruby Bridges Foundation's mission is to change society through
the education and inspiration of children. We believe racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.