RUBY BRIDGES

EARLY LIFE

• ruby bridges was born on september 8,1954
• In tylertown mississippi (Then moved to new orleans )
• As ruby was growing up her and her parents lived on a farm with her grandparents
• Ruby bridges family was religes
• her family was not poor and not rich they were living a comfterbal life
• ruby and her family moved to new orlens
• when her and her family moved she was 6 years old

GOING TO A NEW SCHOOL

• Rubys mother found out about the test To let african amarican kids in a all white school
• rubys mother had to talk rubys dad in to leting ruby take the test
• ruby took the test ....... and pasted she gets to go to the all white school
• she was going to go to the all white school untill the first day of the mounth
• ruby whent to william fratz elimentery school

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

• ruby had to be escorted in to the bilding by 4 u.s. marshels every day
• for the first week or so rubys mother went to school with her
• for the vary first day ruby and her mother sat in the prinsapils office
• becase the school did not have a teacher for ruby yet
• cause all of the other teachers refused to teach ruby

ADULTHOOD part1

• ruby bridges whent to college
• ruby went to tulane university
• ruby tells and told the world her story of being the first african amarican in a all wite school.

ADULTHOOD part2

• ruby is married and to malcolm hall
• malcolm and ruby got married in 1984
• They had 4 kids

BECOMING FAMOUS

• ruby was/is famous for civil rights
• she became famous for being the first african amarican chieled to go to an all wite school
• ruby was in kindergarden when she became famous
• ruby changed schools (by being abel to have all haritiges and religens and nashanalitys go to the same schools)
• the most dificalt time for ruby going to school and going home becase of the crouds and what the croud was saying and doing

RUBYS LIFE RIGHT NOW

• ruby bridges is 60 years old
• she is still talking about her experinsis of when she was littel
• ruby resived the jane adams childerns book award for older childern

what i think of ruby bridges

• ruby bridges is smart and nice and kind
• ruby changed the worled
• even thought she is 60 years old she is still speaking to the worled about her chieldhood .
• I feel this way because ruby was just a littel girl and she went throught things you could not even emadgen .
• I feel that the most importent thing ruby did is that she is still talking about her chieldhood and what happend to sesiety and ruby never gave up .

SOURS

• gogel
• Ruby Bridges - Biography - Civil Rights Activist - Biography.com
• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/history/spotlight.html

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