The Story of Ruby Bridges

Robert Coles First published 2000

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • 1000blackgirlbooks
  • african american children, juvenile literature
  • african americans
  • african americans, biography
  • african americans, biography, juvenile literature
  • african americans, education
  • african americans, segregation, fiction
  • african americans, southern states
  • afro-americans
  • biography
  • juvenile literature
  • new orleans (la.), history
  • race relations
  • school integration
  • segregation in education
  • southern states, race relations