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Bridges, Ruby Bridges, Ruby. Broom, Sarah M. Magoon, Kekla Ribke, Simone T. Turner, Myra FayeBroom, Sarah M.
Summary: "Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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Summary: "When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges and her mother went to William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960, they arrived to find an angry crowd of white people shouting racist insults. For her safety, Ruby had to be escorted to school every day by U.S. Marshals. But despite the hateful attitudes of others, Ruby didn't miss a single day of school that year. Discover the incredible bravery of one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: "A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRIRibke, Simone T.
Summary: A biography on Ruby Bridges and how she stood up against racism and hatred to help integrate Louisiana's school system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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Summary: Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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Summary: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999