THROUGH MY EYES Signed

Ruby Bridges

ISBN 10: 0590189239 / ISBN 13: 9780590189231

Published by Scholastic Press, New York, 1999

About this Item

Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; Bookplate on FEP inscribed by Ruby Bridges. ; 63 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 320251

Bibliographic Details

Title: THROUGH MY EYES Signed

Publisher: Scholastic Press, New York

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; Sixteenth Printing.

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Synopsis:

In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.

Review:

Surrounded by federal marshals, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first black student ever at the all-white William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 14, 1960. Perhaps never had so much hatred been directed at so perfect a symbol of innocence--which makes it all the more remarkable that her memoir, simple in language and rich in history and sepia-toned photographs, is informed mainly by a sort of bewildered compassion. Throughout, readers will find quotes from newspapers of the time, family members, and teachers; sidebars illustrating how Ruby Bridges pops up in both John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and a Norman Rockwell painting; and a fascinating update on Bridges's life and civil rights work. A personal, deeply moving historical documentary about a staggeringly courageous little girl at the center of events that already seem unbelievable. (Ages 6 and older) --Richard Farr