Compare and Contrast Ruby Bridges POV Central Idea

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Ruby was selected after a tedious process to desegregate an all white school.

Ruby exhibits courage and determination in the face of adversity.

Ruby was always brave no matter what.

Never give up.

"Our Ruby taught us a lot" (Coles 1).

"So, Ruby began to learn how to read and write, in an empty classroom, an empty building (Coles 4).

"She didn't seem nervous or anxious or irritable or scared" (Coles 6).

"Every morning, Ruby stopped a flew blocks away from school to say a prayer for the people who hated her" (Coles 8).

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"I took the test, I was only five" (Bridges 1).

"Lucille, my mother, was convinced that no harm would come to us" (Bridges 2).

"Three of the remaining children, all girls, were to go to a school named Mcdonogh" (Bridges 3).

"They were US Federal Marshals" (Bridges 4).

"The New Orleans Police were supposed to help us, but they very much disliked being the ones to enforce integration (Bridges 6).

"My father, Abon, didn't want any part of school integration" (Bridges 4).

"He asked the US government to rush federal marshals to New Orleans to protect the Black first graders" (Bridges 5).

"People yelled and threw things" (Bridges 4).

"After my mother and I arrived, they ran into classrooms and dragged their children out of school" (Bridges 5).

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