This Is Your Time

Name: This Is Your Time
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Ruby Bridges
ISBN: 9780593401934

Author: Ruby Bridges

Narrator: Ruby Bridges

Unabridged: 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 11/10/2020

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical, African American & Black Nonfiction

Synopsis

Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story and offers a powerful call to action with this elegant gift book.

Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby's experience as a child who had no choice but to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen as one of the first black students to integrate New Orleans' all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change.

Ruby's honest and impassioned words, imbued with love and grace, serve as a moving reminder that "what can inspire tomorrow often lies in our past." This Is Your Time will electrify people of all ages as the struggle for liberty and justice for all continues, and the powerful legacy of Ruby Bridges endures.

About The Author

Ruby Bridges is a civil rights activist who, at the age of six, was the first black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. She was born in Mississippi in 1954, the same year the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision ordering the integration of public schools. Her family later moved to New Orleans, where on November 14, 1960, Bridges began attending William Frantz Elementary School, single-handedly initiating the desegregation of public education in New Orleans. Her walk to the front door of the building was immortalized in Norman Rockwell's famous painting The Problem We All Live With, in Robert Coles's book The Story of Ruby Bridges, and in the Disney movie Ruby Bridges.This Is Your Time is her first book in over twenty years, following the publication of her award-winning autobiography Through My Eyes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by H (is anyone getting notifications) Balikov

Ruby Bridges should be a more famous name in the Civil Rights Movement. Not only was she the first to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans (1960) but she was “imortalized” in a painting by Norman Rockwell that is shown (in part) on this book’s cover. She has not sought the spotligh......more

Goodreads review by nitya

Although this is aimed at a much younger audience (kids/preteens), I think that adults should read this too. Ruby's story is so powerful and proves that 60 years later "the problem we all live with" never went away, even with legislation and a Black president. There's still SO much work to be done,......more

Goodreads review by Jon

There is a picture in this book - white parents outside William Frantz Elementary School - holding up a black doll in a coffin...how could you do this knowing a little girl would see this and know that the doll represented her. How could you do this and not think of your own children - what would yo......more

Goodreads review by Deborah

A truly touching, powerful, and marvelous book. Ruby Bridges writes a remembrance 60 years after she was the first black child to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is her letter to the youth who are fighting for racial equality. Black and white photographs poignantly illu......more

Quotes

"Powerful.... Bridges’ hopeful words, her faith born of experience, are soothing and encouraging in this time of unrest and uncertainty." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Timely, powerful, and full of hope. This missive of truth, spoken by a true American hero, deserves a place in all libraries.” —School Library Journal, starred review

“Ruby experienced unimaginable racial hatred, lost her oldest son to random violence, and still advocates for positive change. Kids will relate to Ruby's stories on many levels and be inspired by the difference one little girl made. A profoundly moving book.” —Booklist, starred review