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Ruby Bridges Thesis

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To many people Ruby Bridges had been the first African American to enter an all white school, but to others, she was an extremely fearless little girl who radiated love in everything she did. Ruby Bridges began attending an all white elementary school when she was only six years old. Every school day Ruby was escorted into school by U.S. Marshalls, which helped ensure her safety from the protestors. The vulgar protesters treated Ruby, and yelled foul words at her, which hardly bothered Ruby any. Six year old Ruby demonstrated courage, love, and fearlessness even though she was treated as less than, terrorized, and isolated by the other students. Initially, Ruby was treated as though she was less than others, not only by the teachers and parents but by the students as well. Whenever the white people would see Ruby they would look away, and ignore her as if she was not there. Also, Ruby is extremely smart, perhaps even smarter than the white children, but is treated as though she cannot learn and is not able. For example, when Ruby made a surprisingly high grade on the test which helped her enter the white school, all the teachers were tremendously surprised. Another …show more content…

The protesters threatened to poison her food, and kill her; which caused Ruby to only want to eat packaged food and no home cooked meals. Another protester even had a coffin with a Ruby doll in it, hoping to scare Ruby into dropping out of the all white school. Ruby’s vice principal (vp) even hired a new teacher just for her, because the VP did not want her associating with the white children. When a preacher wanted to let his white daughter go back to school, the protesters called him a traitor and began terrorizing him as well. Not only did the vice principal enjoy tormenting Ruby, she enjoyed isolating ruby from the other students as

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