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5 days ago · Ruby Bridges. Disney presents the inspiring true story of one little girl whose strength and dignity during the racially charged 1960s helped change history! When bright six-year-old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American student to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for ...
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17 hours ago · Ruby didn’t stop fighting for what’s right as she grew up. She started the Ruby Bridges Foundation all about teaching people to respect each other and value our differences. Through her foundation Ruby works to make sure future generations understand why racial harmony matters and why prejudice is dangerous.
5 days ago · In elementary school several years ago, Olivia Shackelford read about how 6-year-old Ruby Bridges endured racial slurs, ostracism, and death threats for integrating an all-white elementary school in New Orleans in 1960.Groups such as Moms for Liberty that try to get books about race banned from scho...
4 days ago · Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story. Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys' team, first as a batboy, then as a player.
4 days ago · Inspire her dreams of creation with this book featuring biographies of 22 groundbreaking architects, engineers, and landscape designers! Each capsule biography describes that woman's strengths and passions as a child, as well as the challenges they faced as they established themselves in their careers. Intriguing sideb.
5 days ago · By November of that year, the first, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, and her mother were met with crowds yelling viscious slurs as they were escorted by four federal marshals into a New Orleans elementary school. New Orleans required Black students to pass an exam. Ruby did.
4 days ago · $320,000 for detailed engineering on existing tracks, bridges and culverts, including drone surveys, specifications for trains and charging stations and location of a new line into the university.
