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Ruby Bridges - Research Paper

Ruby Bridges

Throughout this essay, one will come to find that all five ecological systems are present. Whether it be the microsystem of Ruby and her family, how she was treated among peers at school, or the mesosystem relating to her parents connection with Ruby's teacher at the white school, the exosystem between her father's fears and treatment by whites pushed onto Ruby or her mother, the macrosystem of the all African-American street Ruby lived on or the school she attended before the white school and finally the chronosystem where Ruby and her parent's connected with the NAACP as well as the U.S. Marshals (government), these will all be talked about below.
Ruby Nell Bridges was born on ...

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anything off her block, but that was all about to change.
When Ruby was 5 years old, she started kindergarten at Johnson Lockett Elementary School. Ruby's school was all black, and she had many friends. In the spring of 1960, the government decided to force two white schools' to integrate and Johnson Lockett was to test their kindergarteners to see if they could make it in white schools. So, Lucille dressed up Ruby in her Sunday finest and took her uptown, to the school board room and waited to be tested. That summer, several people from NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) came to her house and told Ruby's parents that she had passed to test and was to go to William Frantz Elementary School. It was closer and better than Johnson Lockett. Ruby really didn't understand what was going on, but she was going to.
On November 14th, 1960, Ruby Bridges was ready to go to her new school. William Frantz Elementary School was an all white school, and many ...

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Added: 6/18/2014 09:53:22 AM
Submitted By: kwormstall
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
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