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Ruby Bridges
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Runtime
96 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
4.06
Director
Euzhan Palcy
Writers
Toni Ann Johnson

Ruby Bridges

1998 Rated PG · ⭐ 6.3 · Votes: 17
The true story of Ruby Bridges an African-American girl who in 1960 at age 6 helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to (and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class she was the only one there period) and though she faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day she emerged unscathed physically or emotionally. Encouraged by her teacher a white woman from the North named Barbara Henry and her mother Lucille and with her own quiet strength she eventually broke down a century-old barrier forever a pivotal moment in the civil-rights movement

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