When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.


She went to school... and taught the nation a lesson.
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Chaz Monet
Ruby Nell Bridges

Michael Beach
Abon Bridges

Penelope Ann Miller
Barbara Henry

Lela Rochon
Lucielle 'Lucy' Bridges

Kevin Pollak
Dr. Robert Coles

Jean Louisa Kelly
Jane Coles

Peter Francis James
Dr. Broyard

Diana Scarwid
Miss Woodmere

Patrika Darbo
Miss Spencer
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