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RUBY BRIDGES. ruby. RUBY WAS BORN IN 1954 IN TYLERTOWN, MISSISSIPPI . ruby. RUBY GREW UP ON A FARM WITH HER PARENTS. RUBY’S MOM GOT NIGHT JOBS TO GET THE FAMILY FOOD. A judge said that black children and white children had to go to same schools . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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RUBY BRIDGES
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RUBY RUBY WAS BORN IN 1954 IN
TYLERTOWN, MISSISSIPPI
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RUBY RUBY GREW UP ON A FARM WITH
HER PARENTS.
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RUBY’S MOM GOT NIGHT JOBS TO GET THE FAMILY FOOD
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A judge said that black children and white children had to go to same schools .
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Ruby took a test along with 360 other black kids. If they passed, they would go to an integrated school.
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Only six children passed the test. Ruby was one them.
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Ruby was assigned to William Frantz Public School in New Orleans. The white people in the neighborhood were very angry.
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Federal marshalls had to escort Ruby to school because people were making threats to hurt her. She spent her first day alone in the principal’s office.
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Ruby published the book See Through My eyes in 1995. All the black kids read the book.
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Ruby said, “Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and start a trail.”
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RUBY I had got married and had 4
sons, so now she has a big family.