Ruby Bridges Biography Essay

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Ruby Bridges Biography

Early life

Ruby Bridges childhood she had lived with her dad and mother and also her grandparents that had worked as tenant farmer in Mississippi. When she was four years of age, Her grandparents Avon and Lucille Bridges moved to new orlandes wanting to locate life in a greater city and also with her parents. Her dad landed a position at the service station and her mother had took night to help their developing family. Young Ruby had two siblings and also a sister.

Ruby Bridges was in the Supreme court Brown V Board of Education choice school .She was one of many African American who had tried the studie test in New Orleans who was taking the test to be able to decide …show more content…

If she had to go to the bathroom the federal marshals would walk her down the hall. Several years later on of the esorts she didn´t cry or whimpered they said she marched like a little solder because what she had learn from Mr.Henry to stay strong.

The effect on her family

The threats were really bad for Ruby however also to the Bridges family they had suffered. Her father had lost his job at the filling station and her grandparents were sent off to the land and sharecropped for over 25 years.The grocery store where the family had shop they banned them and they wouldn't allow to eat or buy anything.

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Mr.s Henry wasn't rewend and her better half ( Her husband) had came back to Boston. There was not any more government marshals behind Ruby's back every min when she went everywhere and .Ruby had strolled to class without anyone else's input of what she looks like and her coming to the school. in her second grade class, the school had finally started to see a full of kids back together again and nobody would discuss the previous (last ) year .It had appear that everybody needed to put had put the comments behind them. The New year had showed that they did regret what they had donned and felt sorry for

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