Even Children Lead: A Story about Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story

The year is 1961.  Ruby Bridges attended the school for black children as a kindergartener.  Today she is starting first grade in a school much closer to home, one that used to be only for white children. For months, it was only Ruby and her teacher, Mrs. Henry, were the only ones in the school because white parents would not let their children attend a school that had been integrated. Finally, some students began coming back to the school, and Ruby had children to play with.

Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story, by Ruby Bridges, is a wonderful little biography written for children aged 4 to 8 years. With beautiful photograph collages, the short book takes on a world of meaning that shows how one brave little girl could change the attitudes of an entire neighborhood during the racial tensions of the early 1960s.