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Title:
| Famous People: Ruby Bridges |
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Description:
| These sites are about Ruby Bridges and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Read about the Ruby Bridges Foundation. Includes classroom activities, biographies, interviews, and photographs, plus information about a movie and books based on her life. There is a link to an eThemes Resource on the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| PBS: A Class of One
This is a transcript of Ruby Bridges talking about her experience as the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school.
The Ruby Bridges Foundation
Read about Ruby bridges and her childhood in her own words. Includes articles and photographs of Ruby Bridges.
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
In this classroom activity, students can discuss race, class, and gender and how these things affect society.
Eyewitness to History
This class activity helps student understand the significance of Ruby Bridges. NOTE: Be sure to check the suggested links before sharing with students.
Ruby Bridges Lesson Plan
This teacher-created lesson plan includes several activity ideas for students to learn about Ruby Bridges.
The Problem We All Live With
At this site you can see Norman Rockwell's painting of Ruby Bridges walking to school. NOTE: In the painting, there is an offensive word scribbled on the background.
Women's History Month
Ruby Bridges answers student questions about her life and experiences.
PBS: African American World
Ruby Bridges tells her story of attending a previously white school at the age of six.
eThemes Resource: Civil Rights Movement
These sites are about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. from 1954-1971. Includes several timelines with the major events of the era explained. Take an online tour of several historical spots. Topics include the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Greensboro Sit-Ins, Little Rock Central High School, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Read about civil rights leader Malcolm X and a first-hand account of the Freedom Rides of 1961. There are links to eThemes Resources on Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black History Month.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 2.1, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8, 4.2, 4.3, 1, 3, 4, 6, 2, 3, 6
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