Ruby bridges biography pbs interview

(a) identifying the importance of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the roles of Thurgood Marshall and Oliver Hill, and how Virginia responded;

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Interview with Ruby Bridges Hall ()
PBS Online Newshour: A Class of One

Description: In , six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to integrate a Southern elementary school, walking into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans between four U.S.

federal marshalls. This resource consists of an interview with her conducted by PBS News anchor Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Ruby - now Mrs. Hall - vividly recalls her memories of the first day she entered her new school.

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She thought she must be very early because there were no other students in the room. She didn't know that white parents had protested her admittance by withdrawing their children from the first-grade classroom. Her first year at Franz Elementary she was in "a class of one" because white parents continued to picket the public school in this mann