The Story of Ruby Bridges

by Robert Coles

First published 1993 · 32 pages

About this book

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.

  • African Americans
  • Afro-Americans
  • Biography
  • Juvenile literature
  • Race relations
  • School integration
  • 1000blackgirlbooks
  • Segregation in education

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