Childhood

Ruby Bridges was the first black girl to go to white school. She was born in Tylertown, Missisppi 1954 September 8th. Ruby grew up in New Orleans. Rubys family members are her mom, dad,sister and a brother named Milton. In Rubys early life of school was not so good, but she was really brave even though white people tried to hurt her.

Timeline
1954                   Ruby Bridges was born

1958                  Ruby and her family moved to New Orleans

1960                  Rubys first day of school November 14th

1964                  Norman Rockwell was inspired by Ruby so he painted a picture in her honor

1984                  Ruby got married

1990                 Rubys brother Milton died

1998                 Disney produced a movie about Ruby and her story about school

                                                      Rubys Quotes

* “I think people are happier when they make friends, what do you think?”

* “Please god, forgive these people because even if they say those mean things they dont know what their doing. So can you forgive them just like you forgave those folks a long time ago when they said terrible things about you.”

* “Racusim is a grown up disease and we should stop our kids from spreading it.”

                                            5 Interesting Facts About Ruby

* She became friends with the first white people to came to her school.

* She was brave enough to go to schoolneveryday when people were trying to hurt her.

* Her family is very catholic so Ruby prayed everyday before school.

* Rubys brother died in a drug-related shoot.

* Ruby made a foundation. It promotes the values of tolerance acceptance for everyone.

                                              My Inspiration For Ruby Bridges

I chose Ruby Bridges because I thought she was a really great person. After hearing her story, I thought she was a really brave girl to be the first black student at an white school. She was also very nice. Ruby inspires me because  I think she was a very brave girl to go to Willi,am Frantz public school. Everybody was bullying her. Even parents were. But she was proud that she was doing that and she stood up for herself anyway.She had hard time and went through them anyway!

                                                                          Word Of The Month

Ruby Bridges is brave. She is brave because she kept going through tuff moments issues, but she was very brave to act like they were not there. It was hard because they were yelling mean words. Also she worked very hard in a lonely classroom and did not worry about what was going to happen when she walked out of school to go home. She had some hard times in her class learning but she never gave up.