Product: The Story of Ruby Bridges
Category: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Books for Teachers
ISBN: 0590572814
Student Level: toddler, preschool, kindergarten, elementary
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles, George Ford
(Illustrator)
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. Ruby Bridges did it
every day for weeks that turned into months. The white parents withdrew
their kids, and Ruby sat alone with her teacher in an empty classroom
in an empty building and learned her lessons. Harvard professor Cole
has written powerful adult books about children in crisis and about children's
moral and political lives. Here he tells one girl's heroic story, part
of the history of ordinary people who have changed the world.
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