Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges

I read this book to my students to give them a more in depth look into segregation than just a picture book. In November 1960, Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old black girl, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists, surrounded by federal marshal, into her school. This book is her story! Her strug......more

I had to read this book for school and it is about Ruby Bridges as a child written by Ruby Bridges. Now surprisingly I somewhat enjoyed this book! I thought that Ruby was such a cool little girl and that she is pretty awesome! Some things I didn't like is the swearing(bad words) and I now this is su......more

What attracted me to this book was that it was written by THE Ruby Bridges, little girl extraordinaire who lived through some unbelievable events at such a young age. All I can say is that you've got to be the deepest gall of bitterness and wickedness to throw eggs and rocks at a first grader, to sc......more

I read this story aloud to my children. They already knew the basic story of Ruby Bridges, but they still found this book fascinating. Even my six year old listened to the whole thing (we broke it up over a couple of nights). It led to some much more in depth conversation with my older kids about ra......more

Many of us are now familiar with Ruby Bridges, the African-American kindergarten student who had to be escorted to her school by U.S. Marshals through the terrifying gauntlet of an angry mob who opposed desegregation. This is her story, told by Ruby herself, her mother, and her teacher. Now that a m......more