3/2/11

For Today's reading research Ruby Bridges. Blog 4 things you learned.

-    My mother was all for it. My father wasn't. "We're just asking for trouble," he said.'

U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, only allowed Ruby to eat food that she brought from home

A neighbor provided her father with a new job, and local people babysat, watched the house as protectors, and walked behind the federal marshals' car on the trips to school.

 Some white families continued to send their children to Frantz despite the protests

her grandparents, who were sharecroppers in Mississippi, were turned off their land