Ruby+Bridges+by+Summer

    Ruby Bridges In 1960, when Ruby Bridges was in kindergarten, she took a test to see if she was smart enough to go to William Frantz Public School. William Franz Public School was for kids that were white, but under federal court orders, New Orleans public schools were finally forced to desegregate. Most schools for white children had better education and supplies. The day before Ruby was born, her mother Lucille Bridges was a sharecropper and carried 90 pounds of cotton on her back. She wanted a better life for Ruby. When Ruby was 4 years old, her family moved to New Orleans, that was in 1958. Everyone on Ruby’s block was African American. The people from the block and around the corner were all white. As you can probably tell from what I have told you so far they never talked to each other. Most children didn’t know what segregation was so they never knew why there schools were separate until they got a little older. Ruby had a lot of siblings, 8 to be exact. She shared her room with all of them. They had many bunk beds and they didn’t have very much space for clothes and different kinds of decorations. Ruby passed the test and was supposed to start school at William Franz Public School when she was in first grade but, the lawmakers had found a way to slow down the integration. So she ended up starting in school in Johnson Lockett the same school that she went to when she was in kindergarten. She started going to William Franz Public around November. When she got to William Franz Public School she noticed parents taking their children out of classrooms. This was hard for ruby to handle. She wanted to fit in to school but when every child at William Franz left because she was an African American she was left with the whole school to her self. It was just her and her teacher Mrs. Henry. Mrs. Henry was the only teacher <span style="color: rgb(33,0,230);">that would teach Ruby. <span style="color: rgb(49,0,209);">The other teachers had <span style="color: rgb(74,0,214);">a problem with Ruby <span style="color: rgb(49,46,168);">because she was an <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(0,7,255);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">African American. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Ruby bridges change history and is now in her 50s as you know now segrigation has now been abolished because of RUBY BRIDGES! <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> THE WEBSITES THAT I WENT TO ARE

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