Ruby Bridges: A True Story Of A First-Grade Girl

She lived on a farm with her parents and grandparents, where the Bridges family sharecropped for a living. When Ruby was 4 years old, her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana hoping for a chance at a better life. Her father worked at a gas station and her mother worked night shifts cleaning a bank to keep the family going. Ruby had two younger brothers and a sister. When Ruby was 6, she was the first African-American to attend an all-white school in New Orleans,LA. Ruby was required to take a test before she could enter the all-white school, William Frantz Elementary School. The test was designed to be hard, so colored children couldn’t attend white schools in New Orleans. The test was a way to keep segregation in the schools in New Orleans. Ruby was the only one of six African-American students to pass the special test. Ruby’s father was opposed to the idea of Ruby joining the all-white school, but her mother supported it and convinced her Abon to allow Ruby to join. On November 14, 1960, Ruby started school at William Frantz Elementary and had to be escorted to class by her mother and federal marshals due to the racial violence. The New Orleans police department and Louisiana police refused their services. Ruby’s teacher, Mrs. Barbara Henry, taught her in a vacant room for a whole year. The white parents refused to send their children to school with Ruby and the white

Ruby Bridges had a difficult and eventful childhood. For example, Ruby, an African American at the age of six moved to New Orleans. That year Ruby was the first African American to go to a white school (“Ruby Bridges”). As a child going to a white school Federal Marshals had to go to school with a lot and the

Ruby Bridges was an important figure for the Civil Rights Movement because she took initiative. The brave six year old was the first African American to attend an all white school, as a result would eventually end racial segregation. Culture “It is the way we eat, sleep, talk, play, care for the sick, relate to one another, think about work, arrange our kitchen, and remember our dead. It includes the language we speak the religion or spirituality we practice (or do not), and the clothing, housing, food, and rituals…”(Sparks and Edwards 55). Ruby's culture is explored fully in the movie through her family and home. There is a connection to Ruby's culture through her mother’s cooking, their outdoor activities, and their clothing. In the documentary, the audience is exposed to two different cultures. Of course there is one that is the dominant culture which creates conflict. Dominant culture “it is the culture of the people who hold the social, political, and economic power in the society” (Sparks and Edwards 57). The white people were the dominant culture during the time and reacted violently towards Ruby because they were afraid of the change. One could understand the reasons why these people reacted the way they did because they had not been exposed to new cultures. Although, violence acts towards a little girl was not the answer. Ruby was able to make a stand without physically harming anyone. Another major idea explored in this documentary was racism which is “an attitude, action, or practice of an individual or institution, backed by societal power, that undermines human and legal rights or economic opportunities of people because of specific physical characteristics, such as skin color” (Sparks and Edwards 77-78). The Marshals were there to protect Ruby so the racist acts were not pushed to another level. Although, Ruby was terrified from all the comments that

Suggested use: I would use this book as a full class read aloud. Specifically, I would use this book to hit three main points. First, this would be a good book to connect to Common Core State Standards surrounding topics such as describing the “traits, motivations or feelings” of characters and “how their actions contribute to the sequence of events” (as in CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3). Second, this book might be more engaging to students whose interests are not always hit by other books; this tale of two African American football players would hopefully appeal

She didn't know this at the time, but the test was supposed to determine which black students would be allowed to attend a white school. Ruby was a very bright girl and aced the test. After that, her parents were told that she could attend the local white school and begin the integration of black students with white students. At first her father didn't want her to go to the white school. He was afraid that it would be dangerous. There were a lot of white people who were angry and didn't want Ruby at their school. Ruby Nell Bridges made hitory at the age of six by entering willian frantz elementry school in 1960 as the 1st african american in new orleans she was born to Lucille and abon bridges. they moved to new orleans in search of better oppertunities for ruby and her three younger siblings.in 1960 Ruby's parents were imformed by officals from the NAACP that she was one of the only six students to pass the test, so she would be the only african american to attend an all white school that she only lived five blocks away from. when ruby arrived at the school there was a large crowd of people ye throwing things and shouting in her inoceence Ruby thought it was a mardi gras

First of all, Ruby Bridges was the first African American to attend to an all white school. Ruby was asked to attend that school because she scored remarkably well on the test that would allow schools to integrate. Albion, her father, insisted that she

Ruby Briges was born on the exact same year as the Supreme Court’s Brown Vs. Board of Education decision in the school is noticable coincidence in her early life into Civil Rights movement . When she was in the kindergarten , she was one of the African- American students in New Orleans who been choosen to take a test to be determining whether or not she can attend a all white school . The idea they planned was that if all the African American failed the test , then in New Orleans all the schools might be able to stay segregated for a while . Ruby lived five blocks away from an all white school , but she attened kindergarten serval miles away , at an all black school .

Ruby Bridges was 6 years old when she got the opportunity to go to an all-white school. Her family moved from Tylertown, Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1959 to find better job opportunities. Ruby attended Johnson Lockett, a school for black children, in kindergarten. The spring of that year, New Orleans administered a test to all the black schools in an effort to integrate schools. If children passed the exam, they would be sent to an all-white school. This was supposedly given to evaluate the black childrens’ education and see if they were intelligent enough to attend a school with white children. However, the test was created to be very difficult and impossible for anyone to pass. Ruby Bridges and five other students shocked the teachers and administrators and did the impossible! They each had an opportunity to go to an all-white school, Ruby’s being William Frantz Elementary School.

Ruby Bridges was the first African American to enter an all white elementary school in New Orleans in 1966. This little girl was very brave be be escorted by U.S Marshalls all the people yelled at her as she walked up the stairs with her head high as she walks in with her mom and the other men .

Ruby Bridge was the first African American child to go to an all-white school. Ruby at the time was only six years old and was the first to attend William Frantz elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. Everyday Ruby was escorted to school because of the mob that was standing around William Frantz. Everyday Ruby was scared because white people would stand around the school and call her a “Nigger” or they would put a black baby doll in a coffin and yell this is you people even threatened to poison her the lady that said that would poison her was the lady from the grocery store. Barbara Henry was the only teacher willing to teach Ruby because all the other teachers did not want a black student in there class with all the other white kids because they thought that she would cause trouble between all the students. Ruby practically had her own tutor because of the teachers, at the end of the year Ruby had to take another test to

Born on September 8th 1960, six years later Ruby Bridges would be the first African-American child to attend an all white southern elementary school. After moving from her hometown Tylertown, Mississippi to New Orleans, Louisiana in hope of a better life she was one of the many black children chosen to take the test. This test would determine whether the schools would become integrated or not obviously being designed for them to fail, but six passed one being Ruby. In November of 1960 when the Louisiana State Legislature could no longer fight segregation in schools Ruby would be the only African-American child attending William Frantz Elementary School. Ruby paved the way for Civil Rights actions, this makes her a Civil Rights Activist Leader and an inspiration to many.

Ruby Bridges was one of the first heroic African Americans to enter an all white elementary school in New Orleans in 1966. She was a brave, little girl who was escorted to school by the U.S. Marshalls. The teachers and protesters said vulgarities things to ruby, and treated her like an outcast. Ruby demonstrated bravery even though she was ostracized, threatened, and surrounded by racists.

In the Ruby Bridges story that she wrote she expressed how she felt and what she was felling at this time. Ruby Bridges was considered in the category of being an integrate to the people in her school the parents of the children in the school the teachers and she was constantly threatened. The first story tells what was happening such as “protesters carrying signs,yelling insults,and throwing things.” The tim that Ruby was alive the people in her world were very racist against the color of her skin.

Kidnapped we got kidnapped why would it happen to us? We were just having a girl day and then out of nowhere a white van came and took us. I never wanted this to happen, when Amber told me to run and don’t look back i couldn’t , i just couldn’t leave my best friend out there i was about to run to her and beat up the guy but someone else got me and i tried so hard to get out of his armed but it didn’t work. Next thing i knew is that we both were in the back of the car and it’s driving off Amber was calming me down and i know that if we both are here together i know that we can get out of this alive. The car stopped and the two front doors of the car opened and then closed. I heard foot steps to coming to the back

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to attend an all white school in the biography there are many evidence that explains how and why Ruby was heroic. In the text it illustrates “I remember climbing into the back seat of the marshal's car with my mother,but I don’t remember feeling frightened”. Ruby Bridges was heroic because she wasn’t afraid to go to all white school. We can connect her examples into the real word to the kids who get scared when they go to unfamiliar places. Ruby’s biography taught us to be confident and