The Story Of Ruby Bridges

Description:

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.

subjects: African Americans,  Afro-Americans,  Biography,  Juvenile literature,  Race relations,  School integration,  1000blackgirlbooks,  Segregation in education,  African american children, juvenile literature,  African americans, biography, juvenile literature,  African americans, education,  African americans, southern states,  African americans, biography,  New orleans (la.), history,  Southern states, race relations,  African americans, segregation, fiction

People: Ruby Bridges

Places: Louisiana,  New Orleans,  New Orleans (La.)