school integration

When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before, embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations.

"The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California" -- OCLC.

"Explores the intents and effects of both [desegregation and integration] concepts--especially as it relates to schools and education--in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way"--Provided by publisher.

"Leads early childhood professionals to explore and address issues of bias, equity, low expectations, and family engagement to ensure culturally responsive experiences"--Amazon.com.

This story in verse recounts the firsthand experiences of one of the dozen young African-American students who made history by integrating Tennessee's Clinton High School 1956, a year before the integration of Little Rock High.

Recounts the experiences of two families--Gee, a black teenager and his mother Jade, and Noelle, a half-white, half-Hispanic teenager and her mother Lacey May--whose lives intersect when a referendum passes allowing black students to be bussed to a predominantly white North Carolina high school.

In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.

"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--Provided by publisher.

The portrait of an extended black family where the thirteen-year-old daughter is striving to be grown up while facing prejudice and school busing pressures outside the family.

A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.