Ruby Bridges
Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, [2009]
Format: Book
Description: 48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
A biography of Ruby Bridges, the first African American student to attend William Frantz Public School in New Orleans and the subject of a 1964 Normal Rockwell painting.
Series: History maker bios.
Contents:
The way things were -- Small girl, big job -- First grade -- Growing up -- Facing forward.
Subjects:
Bridges, Ruby -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
School integration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Juvenile literature.
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Bridges, Ruby -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
School integration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Juvenile literature.
New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 680L
ISBN:
9780761342205 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Bridges, Ruby | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Bridges | Sandhills Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Bridges | Southeast | Children's Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47) and index.