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The story of Ruby Bridges

For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

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Main Author:	Coles, Robert
Other Authors:	Ford, George Cephas (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Scholastic, c1995.
Subjects:	Bridges, Ruby > Juvenile nonfiction. School integration > Louisiana > New Orleans > Juvenile nonfiction. African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography > Juvenile. New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0590439677 9780439472265
Author Notes:	Boston-born psychiatrist and author Robert Martin Coles devoted his professional life to the psychology of children. Coles has been associated with the Harvard University Medical School since 1960. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his five-volume series entitled Children in Crisis, Coles has contributed hundreds of articles to popular magazines, as well as writing over thirty books for adults and children. Other books include The Mind's Fate, Flannery O'Connor's South, and Walker Percy: An American Search. (Bowker Author Biography)