Ruby Bridges | This Is Your Time | Buch | Englisch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) • EUR 21,79 (2024)

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Ruby Bridges writes a remembrance 60 years after she was the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is her letter to the youth who are fighting for racial equality. Black and white photographs poignantly illustrate the time.

One famous quote by Ruby Bridges was from a speech given at the dedication of her new Ruby Bridges Foundation ceremony. She said, "Racism is a grownup disease. Let's stop using kids to spread it."

She was the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School. At six years old, Ruby's bravery helped pave the way for Civil Rights action in the American South. Ruby was born on September 8, 1954 to Abon and Lucille Bridges in Tylertown, Mississippi.

Learning that you can never judge anyone from the outside was the first lesson of that tumultuous year. A second was that we must all “become brothers and sisters.” “We must absolutely take care of one another. It does take a village, but we have to be a village first.

Ruby faced blatant racism every day while entering the school. Many parents kept their children at home. People outside the school threw objects, police set up barricades. She was threatened and even “greeted" by a woman displaying a black doll in a wooden coffin.

Ruby graduated from a desegregated high school, became a travel agent, married and had four sons. She was reunited with her first teacher, Henry, in the mid 1990s, and for a time the pair did speaking engagements together.

Watch the video of President Obama and Ruby Bridges here. When Ruby Bridges visited the Oval Office on July 15, President Obama told her, "I think it's fair to say that if it wasn't for you guys, I wouldn't be here today."

What happened to Ruby Bridges when she was 4? ›

When she was four years old, her family moved to New Orleans. Two years later a test was given to the city's African American schoolchildren to determine which students could enter all-white schools. Bridges passed the test and was selected for enrollment at the city's William Frantz Elementary School.

It is more complex to acknowledge that Ruby Bridges is still alive than to imagine her as that kid in the black-and-white photo.

Her remarkable actions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s have left an indelible mark on society, and her legacy continues to inspire people across the globe. Born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, Ruby Bridges became a pivotal figure in the desegregation of public schools at a tender age.

Book overview

Mother Duck and Father Duck are worried about Ruby. As the littlest duckling of the family, she learns to eat and swim long after her four sisters and brothers. Father Duck frets that Ruby will never catch up, but Mother Duck calmly reassures him that Ruby will flourish -- "in her own time."

In the last 65 years Ruby Bridges life has influenced many people to stand up for their basic Civil Right to equality, starting with the right to an equal education. At the time Ruby Bridges had no idea what a strong leader she was being for others.

Thesis Statement:

Ruby Bridges was a brave six year old who became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring other African Americans to take a stand. At such a young age she left a legacy of courage for other African Americans to fight for their rights for racial equality in education.

The Bridges family suffered for their courage: Abon lost his job, and grocery stores refused to sell to Lucille. Her share-cropping grandparents were evicted from the farm where they had lived for a quarter-century.