THE STORY OF RUBY BRIDGES.
by Coles, Robert (Illustrated by George Ford.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Scholastic,, (1990.). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. The moving story of a 6 year old black girl who became the first to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. 'Ruby Bridges was born in a small cabin near Tylerton, Mississippi. - We were very poor, very poor, - Ruby said. - My daddy worked picking crops. We just barely got by. There were times when we didn't have much to eat.' . Illustrated in full color by George Ford. Large format, unpaginated. Laid in is a photocopy of a newspaper article about Robert Cole, in which he recounts how Ruby Bridges changed his life.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43828
- Title
- THE STORY OF RUBY BRIDGES.
- Author
- Coles, Robert (Illustrated by George Ford.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scholastic,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1990.)
- Keywords
- segregation, integration, new orleans, education,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Children's books;
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