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There has been much scholarly work intended for all audiences produced about the Civil Rights Movement, segregation, and Ruby Bridges. The following nonfiction titles supplement Bridges’s account of her own story because they are longer and incorporate a larger context. They have also been peer reviewed by professional academics to ensure accuracy.
This book is the one to which Bridges refers in the last chapter. The author, Robert Coles, was the child psychologist with whom the author met during first grade. He wrote about children in traumatic situations in his scholarly work, but he wrote this children’s book about Bridges’s story. Bridges says that this book popularized her story in the 1990s, which helped build her platform.
This book, also intended for a middle-grade audience, is an account of Ruby Bridges’s story and the larger process of desegregation with some more historical background. The author has both a PhD and a JD, advanced degrees in both an academic field and law.
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