THIRD ANNOTATION

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), "My History." African American World History. 1995 - 2008. 20 Oct 2008.

This website tells me a lot of things about Ruby Bridges like when she first attended an all-black school at Johnson Lockett Elementary School. Her segregated school was fairly far away from her house, but she had lots of company for the long walk. All the kids on her block went to Johnson Lockett. Also federal courts in New Orleans are about to force two white schools to admit black schools. The plan was to integrate only the first grade for that year. Then, every year after that, the incoming first grade would also be integrated. In the spring of her year at Johnson Lockett School the city school board began testing black kindergartens and they wanted to find out which children should be sent to the white schools. She took the test. She was only five, and I'm sure she didn't have any idea why she was taking it. I know she probably still remember getting dressed up and riding uptown on the bus with her mother, and sitting in an enormous room in the school board building along with about a hundred other black kids, all waiting to be tested. The test was very hard and the purpose for that was so it would be hard passing it because the school boars figured if all the black children failed that schools could be segregated a while longer. Later, Several people from the NAACP came to her house in the summer. They told her parents that she was one of just a few black children to pass the school board test, and that she had been chosen to attend one of the white schools, William Frantz Public School. They said it was a better school and closer to her home than the one she had been attending. They also pressured her parents by saying it would help her brothers, sisters, and other black children in the future by going to William Frantz Public School that was also closer to her home.

This website was helpful to my research because it gave quotes on how the children felt about her. It also helped me to understand how she felt because the other children were unable to play with her. This website was a secondary source. The audience is everyone.