Ruby Bridges

By Madison Ball

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Introduction Ruby bridges was an amazing girl, she went through

a hard life but she just hung in their was a very educational girl/woman. When she was able to go to school everybody left from that school but ruby never got discouraged. A couple years went by and people started putting their kids back in that school and ruby and them became best friends.

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Angry• Angry mobs would crowd ruby saying bad things

about her and about segregation.

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Boys

• Later in the school year 2 boys came to her school because their parents were tired of seeing a whole bunch of mischief.

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Church

• Their family went to church and prayed. Their mom wanted them to go to church because she wanted her children to be strong and have courage for any trouble.

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Daughter • Rudy bridges was a daughter of 4 ( 2 brothers

and one sister) from Abon and Lucille Bridges.

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Empty

• Her classroom soon turned empty because they didn’t want to go to

school with a different color person.

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First

• Ruby was the first African American student to attend a desegregated elementary school.

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Guns • When ruby was escorted into her school by

marshals the marshals carried guns just incase of emergency.

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Hall

• Malcom Hall is Ruby Bridges husband.

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Illegal

• Since colored weren’t allowed to do many things, that was illegal for her.

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Judge

• When ruby moved to New Orleans the judge of her case ordered her to go to an all whites school.

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Klu Klux Klan

• The klu klux klan did a few bad things in her life she moved on and didn’t worry about it.

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Legislator

• The Louisiana state legislator had found ways to fight the federal court order and slow the process down.

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Marshals • Every day their were marshals that walked ruby

in and out of school because of the angry people.

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New Orleans

• They moved to New Orleans to get more educated and have better jobs.

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Occupation

• Ruby has a well known job. Her job is a civil rights activist.

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Praying • Ruby always liked to pray. One of her

famous prayers is “please god try to forgive those people, because even if they say those bad things, they don’t know what their doing. So you could forgive them, just like you did those folks a long time ago, when they said terrible things about you.”

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Question

• Her teacher would question her in order to find out if ruby was really nervous and afraid of no one being at her school.

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Required

• Ruby was required to go to the school were whites went because their parents wanted a good education for her.

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Sandwiches • At one point in life she bought sandwiches to

school and they stored them in a cabinet. Then a few days later the janitors discovered their were bugs like cockroaches in their sandwiches

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Tylertown

• Tylertown Mississippi was where Ruby was born.

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U.S. Marshals

• U.S. Marshals honored Ruby at a ceremony celebrating Black History Month.

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Volunteered

• Their neighbors volunteered to babysit their kids, including Ruby, while their Dad went to work.

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William Frantz

• William Frantz was the elementary that ruby was required to go to. But the only problem was it was only for whites.

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Extra Since ruby had a hard time in life her parents

gave her a little extra support.

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Young • Ruby briges is still alive today surprisingly. She is only 57

years old. WWWWWOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!!

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Zeal • Ruby was very zeal through her life but she hung

in their and was a very educational girl/woman.

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Conclusion

• I hope you learned a lot about ruby bridges by reading this power point. I enjoyed it and I hope you do to

By; Madison Ball

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