Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

©1999 Ruby Bridges (P)2020 Scholastic Inc.

Courageous and Supported

Many flowers to all of the supporters of integration, across the globe. And to Ruby Bridges, flowers 💐 for her example of courage and her sacrificed innocence, in pursuit of equality. May you be forever blessed. 🙏

Gripping...horrifyingly real...TRIUMPHANT

Hateful crowds, fears manifesting as nightmares, heart-breaking isolation...this little girl is the embodiment of courage.

Civil rights icon and hero

When people say get over it slavery was so many years ago, I remark about stories like Ruby that people are able to tell for themselves TODAY. I’m crow is not far behind us and sadly many want to take us back today. America and its history is very musty. It must be told.

must listen

sign of the times and takes me right back to that world. Steinbeck's America in Travels with Charley

Everyone should read this

We need to all be reminded that things were the way they are described in this book such a short time ago. Ruby is only a couple years older than l.