A couple of days ago in class we watched a movie called Ruby Bridges. It was about a black girl who takes a test to see if she was smart enough to go to a white school. In the movie she dose pass but it's not as fun as she thought. On the first day she went to school with her mom and the marshales there were tons of people shouting and saying mean hurtful things like I'm going to hurt you. Or even holding up a black doll in a coffin. Her dad even lost his job. After a while a nice man named Dr.Coles piches in to help out by having Ruby draw picures and tell him about fellings and thoughts about the pictures and people in them. One day some kids finally came back to go to school. At first no one was really fond of her but after a while all the kids finally found out that Ruby may be different but she's still a good friend.
It would have been very difficult to live in that time, when children like Ruby were treated so negatively. What advice would you have given her if she was your friend growing up?
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