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The Story of Ruby Bridges

by Robert Coles · 1993

African AmericansAfro-AmericansBiographyJuvenile literatureRace relationsSchool integration1000blackgirlbooksSegregation in education

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.

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Book data: Open Library