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Title: Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell ISBN: 0-590-18923-9 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: This book was great; it was about Ruby Briggs experience being one of the first colored children to integrate the elementary schools in the south. It gives a wonderful perspective about how this young girl viewed racism. It also shows the reader that she did not completely understand why some many people were mean to her. It is an extreme eye opener to how strong racism was in the south, at one point it talks about grown women throwing and yelling at Ruby.
Rating: 4
Summary: History comes alive through the eyes of a child
Comment: How does it feel to be the first to lead the way to new beginnings in history?
6-year-old Ruby Bridges was the first black child to enroll in a white elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana. On November 14, 1960 Ruby walked into the school with her mother and four U.S. Marshals. The other families pulled their white children out of the school. So Ruby was left alone with her teacher, Mrs. Henry, inside their big classroom. This was the beginning of school integration.
How must this little first grader feel with so many adults yelling horrible things at her? One woman even threatened to poison her. People held a small coffin with a black doll inside to scare her. People threatened her neighborhood ' and her father lost his job. This is brave little Ruby's astounding story.
(p. 20) When we left school that first day, the crowd outside was even bigger and louder than it had been in the morning. I guess the police couldn't keep them behind the barricades. It seemed to take us a long time to get to the marshals' car.
Groups of high school boys, joining the protestors, paraded up and down the street and sang new verses to old hymns. Their favorite was 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' in which they changed the chorus to 'Glory, glory, segregation, the South will rise again.' Many of the boys carried signs and said awful things, but most of all I remember seeing a black doll in a coffin, which frightened me more than anything else.
After the first day, I was glad to get home. That afternoon, I taught a friend the chant I had learned: 'Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate.' My friend and I didn't know what the words meant, but we would jump rope to it every day after school.
Would the chaos ever end? Would the other children return to school?
Rating: 5
Summary: Freedom
Comment: Freedom
Though my eyes
By Ruby Bridges
This book is about a true story of a pivotal event in history as Ruby Bridges saw it unfold around her. It is also about a black six year old girl.
An exciting/interesting part is when Ruby Bridges talks at the end of the book and says "I know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the sprit with us, we will proubly find that the purpose is a good one."
If you like reading about nonfiction books then this is the book for you.
When I read this book I always give it a thumbs up!
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Title: The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles, George Ford ISBN: 0590572814 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title:Ruby Bridges ASIN: B0000524ET Publisher: Disney Studios Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.99 |
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Title: The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History With 21 Activities by Mary Turck ISBN: 155652370X Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: IF A BUS COULD TALK : THE STORY OF ROSA PARKS by Faith Ringgold ISBN: 0689818920 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport ISBN: 0786807148 Publisher: Jump Sun Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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