Such a powerful poem.
I am ruby bridges poem.
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It was years ago in a small town in mississippi called tylertown when a little girl named ruby bridges was born.
Pictures of home in the red roofed stucco house of my childhood the dining room.
Ruby segregated humiliated dad s brave little girl alone who wanted to live love and learn but who was insulted and tormented.
Ruby was a girl she was brave she was a girl she was smart and beautiful and still able to listen and go to a good learning school ruby bridges she was yelled at and.
Ruby bridges brave step by latorial faison.
She must have been frightened courageous and forgiving ruby feared hatred violence and persecution but she wanted the right to go to school.
Tribute to ruby bridges sun 04 07 2013 02 18 andekral.
1 35 am latorial faison said.
I in the slideshow underneath my eyelids i sit at my desk at.
There is a path just found behind the school rumors say what happened there was very very cruel i go to see the famous place and find footsteps at the base i follow it and hear a crack i m in someone else s flashback i see her life through my eyes and hear all her silent cries many yell and threaten her their face a mask of anger she does not quake nor does she tremble but.
I would love to include this in a text set for 4th grade students that are learning about ruby bridges.
Her family was very poor and they had to work really hard to survive.
I was depressed never impressed feelings suppressed.
She can t have been serene content or at ease.
Inspired by the feelings the following poem instilled in me after i read it.
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