For Black History Week, Year 5 studied Ruby Bridges.
Ruby Bridges was famous for being the first black student to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School. Even though segregation had been declared ‘unconstitutional’ by the Supreme Court in the USA, some people were still very angry at the idea of black and white people mixing, and Ruby attending the school led to lots of people protesting outside of the school, parents removing their children from the school, and only one teacher offering to teach Ruby.
We spent the week learning about what life was like during segregation, what Ruby’s first year at school was like, and what happened later in Ruby’s life.
Read our presentations to see what we found out:
