Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story
- ISBN-10
- 0545108551
- ISBN-13
- 9780545108553
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cartwheel Books
- Author
- Ruby Bridges
Description
Ruby Bridges tells the story of how she helped end racial segregation in the New Orleans public school system when she was in the first grade.
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