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Ruby Bridges Photo." Ruby Bridges:Facing the Unknown All Alone. 26 Nov 2008 .


Borgna Brunner and Elissa Haney. "Civil Rights Timeline." ilestones in the modern civil rights movement. 26 Nov 2008 .

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"A Class of One." Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). 1996-2008. 20 Nov 2008 .


"Ask the Expert." Power To Learn. 2008. CSC Holdings, Inc. 20 Nov 2008 .

Fifth Annotation

McCluggage, Bruce . "Exploring Questions About God & Life." A Prayer for White Folks. Tuesday November 4 2008. 4 Nov 2008 .

One morning Mrs. Henry noticed Ruby walking toward the school as usual but then she stopped, turned toward the angry, howling crowd and seemed to even be trying to speak to them. The crowd seemed ready to pounce on her while the marshals tried in vain to keep Ruby moving. Finally, she stopped talking and walked into the school.

Mrs. Henry immediately asked Ruby what happened; why did she try and talk to such a belligerent crowd. Ruby irritatingly responded that she didn't stop to talk with them.


"Ruby, I saw you talking," Mrs. Henry pressed. "I saw your lips moving."
"I wasn't talking," said Ruby. "I was praying...I was praying for them."


Evidently, Ruby had stopped every morning a few blocks away from the school to pray for the people who hated her. But on this morning she had forgotten until she was already in the middle of the malevolent mob.

After school that day, Ruby bolted through the crowd as usual and headed for home with her two companion federal marshals. After a few blocks and with the crowds behind her, she paused as she usually did to say the prayer that she had repeated not once but twice a day -- before and after school:



Please God, try to forgive these people.
Because even if they say those bad things,
They don't know what they're doing.
So You could forgive them,
Just like You did those folks a long time ago
When they said terrible things about You.


This website gave me a quote from Ruby Bridges. The quote was about how she would stop and pray for the angry crowd of people outside of her school every morning. This is a secondary source.

Revised Thesis Statement and Introduction

Thesis Statement:

Nothing can be more moving than watching a small black child climbing the steps to her elementary school that historically and legally did not welcome her presence. It is my contention that Ruby Bridges help to break the barer of segregation by becoming the first black child in an all white school and she served as a inspiration because now schools are integrated.

Introduction:

In 1960, Ruby Bridges parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School System. Even though there was a large crowd of people surround the outside of the school, throwing and shouting things Ruby Bridges managed to go into the school. As soon as Ruby entered the school white parents were walking in and taking there children out.

Fourth Annotation

Civil Rights Leaders, "Resistance to the Movement." Ruby Bridges. 28 Oct 2008 .

Ruby Bridges played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement. Ruby was born September 8, 1954 in Tylertown, Mississippi. A year later, her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. At that time, people wanted to keep blacks and whites separate because whites didn’t think that blacks were as good as them. For example, blacks and whites had separate drinking fountains, blacks had to sit in the back of buses, and blacks and whites each had their own separate schools.

This website was helpful to my research because it explained how Ruby Bridges was important to history. It also gave a time line of her important events. This was a secondary source.

Thesis Statement

Even though there was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting. As soon as Bridges got into the school, white parents went in and brought their own children out; all but one of the white teachers also refused to teach while a black child was enrolled., In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents responded to a call from the NAACP and volunteered her to participate in the integration of the New Orleans School system. because Ruby Bridges played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement.

Third Annotation

Ruby Bridges. Dir. Euzhan Palcy. Perf. Chaz Monet, Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Pollak, Michael Beach, Lela Rochon . DVD. Yahoo Movies, 1999.


Based on actual events that occurred in Louisiana during 1960. Ruby (newcomer Monet) is a first grader who, after scoring one of the highest grades on her school board exam, is chosen as one of the first black students to integrate an all-white school. As racial tension escalates, Ruby is escorted to school by federal marshals, who attempt to protect her from the angry protesters. With guidance and support from her mother (Rochon), father (Beach), teacher (Miller) and a child psychologist (Pollak), Ruby finds the determination to overcome all obstacles. An uplifting story of one girl's courage.


Ruby is an inspiring and cute little girl. The film revisits a shameful past and shows what a powerful force moral fortitude can be, even in a child. The film was nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image award. The writer, Toni Ann Johnson, won the 1998 Humanities Prize for her teleplay. The film also won The Christopher Award. The movie was a secondary source.