My Fourth Blog Post
Ruby Bridges: How it all Began Ruby Bridges was the first black student to enter an all white school, and faced many challenges in the process. At a young age, Ruby helped end segregation in schools, and paved the way for the Civil Rights movement. This is the story of Ruby Bridges. It all started with the Brown v. The Board of Education trial. A man named Oliver Brown from Topeka, Kansas, along with twelve other parents sued their local school system for not allowing their children to attend the school, and forcing them to go to schools much farther away. All because the school was for white students only. Thurgood Marshall argued for them that segregated schools would never be equal. All nine Supreme Court Justices decided in favor of Oliver Brown, and in 1954, segregation was officially illegal in both schools, and everywhere else. This life changing event was just the start of what was yet to come in the Civil Rights movement. Especially for schools. Then, in 1960...