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Ruby Bridges Timeline 1 - Timeline Help
Ruby Bridges timeline part 1 of 3 from 1954 to 1961 at Timeline Help. Ruby became a symbol for the integration of African-Americans into all-white schools in the Deep South of the US. At the age of six she attended the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960, and was confronted with the hostility of white people.
Ruby Bridges Timeline 1 2 3 | - 1954 Sep 8
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- 1960 - 1961 | Ruby Nell Bridges is born in Tylertown, Mississippi, daughter of Abon and Lucille Bridges.
The United States Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional and should be altered.
Her family moves to New Orleans.
Attends kindergarten at Johnson Lockett Elementary School.
A federal court ordered the desegregation of public schools of New Orleans at the start of the 1960 school year.
Ruby passes the New Orleans School Board test. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People N A A C P. argues succesfully to send Ruby to the William Frantz Public School For Whites in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. She becomes the first to attend an integrated school.
November 14 Her first day at school, flanked in front and back by United States Federal Marshals.
Spends her first grade school year alone in the classroom with one teacher, Mrs. Barbara Henry from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Bibliography of Ruby Bridges Timeline 1
Coles, R and Ford, G (2004). The Story Of Ruby Bridges. Scholastic Bookshelf.
Bridges, R (1999). Through My Eyes.
Tushne, M (2005). Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950.
Vaz, K (1994). Black Women in America.
Beckner, C (1995). 100 African-Americans Who Shaped History. 100 Series.
Ringgold, F (2003). If A Bus Could Talk. The Story of Rosa Parks.
Hallie, M (1997). Wonderful World of Disney: RB.
Clark Hine, D, Harrold, S and Hine, W C (2008). African-Americans. A Concise History.
Robnett, B (2000). How Long How Long. African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights.
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