Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges by Hall Ruby Bridges

Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges by Hall Ruby Bridges

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

Ruby Bridges is a civil rights activist who was the first black kid in New Orleans to integrate an all-white primary school when she was six years old. She was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year that the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision mandating public school integration. Bridges and her family eventually moved to New Orleans, where she began attending William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960, and was responsible for the desegregation of public school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell's iconic picture The Trouble We All Live With, Robert Coles' book The Tale of Ruby Bridges, and the Disney film Ruby Bridges all depict her trip to the front door of the building. Following the publication of her award-winning autobiography Through My Eyes, This Is Your Time is her first book in almost two decades.

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ISBN 13	9780590189231
ISBN 10	0590189239
Title	Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges
Author	Hall Ruby Bridges
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scholastic US
Year published	1999-09-01
Number of pages	64
Prizes	Winner of Bookseller's Choice (Nonfiction) 2000, Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Gold) 1999, Winner of NAPPA Gold Awards (Nonfiction) 1999, Winner of Children's Books of Distinction Awards (Nonfiction) 2000, Winner of Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Books for Older Children) 2000, Winner of Orbis Pictus Award 2000, Commended for Jefferson Cup (Young Adults) 2000, Short-listed for Bluebonnet Awards 2002, Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2003, Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Grades 4-6) 2003
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