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This is your time

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.

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Main Author: Bridges, Ruby (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Bridges, Ruby > Juvenile nonfiction.
African American children > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction.
School integration > Louisiana > New Orleans > Juvenile nonfiction.
New Orleans (La.) > Race relations > Juvenile nonfiction.
Autobiographies > Juvenile.
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Summary:Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
Physical Description:55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
ISBN:9780593378526
0593378520
9780593378533
0593378539
Author Notes:Ruby Bridges is a civil rights activist who, at the age of six, was the first black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. She was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision ordering the integration of public schools. Her family later moved to New Orleans, where on November 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, single-handedly initiating the desegregation of public education in New Orleans. Her walk to the front door of the building was immortalized in Norman Rockwell's famous painting The Problem We All Live With , in Robert Coles's book The Story of Ruby Bridges , and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges .

This Is Your Time is her first book in over twenty years, following the publication of her award-winning autobiography Through My Eyes .

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