Research Paper On Ruby Bridges

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Boyd, Herb. "Ruby Bridges: The First Black Child to Integrate a White School in the South."

New York Amsterdam News 104.41 (2013): 32. Academic Search Premier. Web.

"Bridges, Ruby." Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. N.p.: World Book, 2016. 1p. 1.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Web. 2 Dec. 2016.

Bridges, Ruby, and Margo Lundell. Through My Eyes:. New York: Scholastic, 2009. Print.

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