Ruby Bridges didn’t choose to become a civil-rights icon. It was her parents who, in 1960, chose to accept that their 6-year-old daughter would be the first African-American child to integrate a white school in the American South. But as an adult, Bridges, who was immortalised by Norman Rockwell, has fought indefatigably for civil rights and black children’s right to equal education. Her recent book, This is Your Time, is an open letter to the young generation of Americans.
This sequence, featuring a recent video interview by Trevor Noah with Ruby Bridges, is perfect for Black History Month, a theme on civil rights or on remarkable women.
History and culture :
Civil-rights movement, segregation, Jim Crow Laws, remarkable women
Language and structures :
- segregation vocabulary
- picture description
- opposition: unlike, whereas, while; similarities: both
- the preterite
- prohibition in the past tense: were forbidden to, were not allowed to, couldn’t
Copyright(s) :
US Government
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> Little Rock School Integration, 1957
> February is Black History Month
> Martin Luther King Day on the Web
> Daily Routine with Rockwell
> African American History on the Web
> Little Rock School Integration Videos
> Rockwell, Roosevelt and Freedom
> Martin Luther King Slideshow
> Civil Rights: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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