Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges is a Orbis Pictus award winning book. The book tells the story of six year old Ruby Bridges who was one of the first African American girls to be integrated into an all white school. Ruby describes her experience during these historical moments in Civil Rights in a captivating and breathtaking story. The book also includes historical pictures that only enhance the biography even more. I like this book because it is history in a different perspective from our dominant narrative. It really lets the readers get a glimpse of what it was like to be one of the first students integrated into a segregated school with hundreds of anti-segregration protestors all around you.
Bridges,
R. (1999). Through my eyes. New York, NY: Scholastic
Press.
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