Read, Color, and Discover: Ruby Bridges

Learn about the important contributions of Ruby Bridges in this engaging worksheet! Students will read a passage about Ruby Bridges’s experience as the only Black student in a previously all-white school. Then, they’ll find the answers to five questions in the text and write a sentence that explains why people remember Ruby Bridges.

Intended for second and third graders, this worksheet is a fantastic choice for teaching students about Ruby Bridges’s important role in U.S. history. Students will read about the concepts of segregation and integration while they discover how young people can contribute to important social change.

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