Ruby's First Day

Close Read Passage, 157 words, Poetry (nonfiction), Description, Level T (Grade 3), Lexile 550L

In 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to attend an all-white school in the South. This poem describes her experience on the first day.

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