Ruby Bridges is a Civil Rights icon, activist, author and speaker who at the age of six was the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana. Her walk to the front door of the school was immortalized in Norman Rockwell's painting The Problem We All Live With , in Robert Coles' book The Story of Ruby Bridges , and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges. Bridges is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NAACP Martin Luther King Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College, College of New Rochelle, Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. Bridges is also the author of Through My Eyes , This Is Your Time , and most recently, her acclaimed picture book, I Am Ruby Bridges .