Ruby Bridges Timeline Edurne Arizmendi By sesson5A Period: May 7, 1954 to May 8, 1954 May 17 1954 Supreme Court May 17 United States Supreme Court bans segregation in public schools. Period: Sep 8, 1954 to Sep 9, 1954 Ruby Bridges Ruby Bridges was born in Mississippi, four years after she moves to New Orleans.