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On November 14, 1960 a brave six-year-old girl named Ruby Bridges entered William Frantz Elementary School as the first black child to ever attend school there. Prior to this historic event, there had been a lot of talk on both sides of the racial divide.
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Hill, J., Manna, A.L. (2011). Exploring History’s Human Dimension With Process Drama: Ruby Bridges and the Struggle for School Desegregation. In: Dowdy, J.K., Kaplan, S. (eds) Teaching Drama in the Classroom. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-537-6_34
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