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Ruby Bridges Treatment Of African Americans
In my opinion, I think that Americans had no reason to treat blacks the way that they did. It is not their fault that they were born black. God brought African Americans to this earth for a reason and they should not have to be treated differently because of their skin color. For instance, If it wasn’t for Ruby Bridges taking the Board test and going to a school for whites we could still have segregated schools. Ruby Bridges showed that other african americans can go to a school with White Americans. Even though White Americans weren’t used to having an African American in their class they got used to it eventually. At the end of the movie one of the other teachers realized that it wasn’t that bad to teach an African American and wanted
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