Cover of The Story Of Ruby Bridges

Book 2010

The Story Of Ruby Bridges

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Publisher
Turtleback
Published
2010
  • African Americans
  • Afro-Americans
  • Biography
  • Juvenile literature
  • Race relations
  • School integration
  • Segregation in education
  • African americans, education

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.