Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges. Written by Kira Freed. Illustrated by Gabor Utomo.

《鲁比·布里奇斯》。作者：基拉·弗里德，绘者：加博尔·乌托莫。

Who was Ruby Bridges? Ruby Bridges was a little girl who made a big difference. Ruby was born in 1954. She and her family lived in the South.

鲁比·布里奇斯是谁呀？ 她是个带来了巨大改变的小女孩。 鲁比出生于1954年， 和家人住在美国南部。

What was the South like? When Ruby was young, some laws in the South were not fair to Black people. These laws kept Black people and White people separate.

当时的南部是什么样的呢？ 鲁比小的时候，南部有些法律对黑人很不公平。 这些法律强制黑人和白人分开生活。

A United States law said that all children had to go to the same schools. State laws in the South still kept black and white children separate. Black children and white children had to go to different schools. Many people worked to make Southern schools follow the United States law.

美国联邦法律规定，所有孩子都可以去同样的学校上学。 但南部的州法律依然要求黑人和白人孩子分开上学。 黑人孩子和白人孩子必须去不同的学校。 很多人都在努力让南部的学校遵守联邦法律的规定。

How was Ruby brave? Ruby was chosen to go to a white school for first grade in 1960. She was the only black student in that school.

鲁比有多勇敢呢？1960年，鲁比被选中去一所白人学校上一年级。 她是那所学校里唯一的黑人学生。

Many white parents did not want their children to go to school with a black child. They kept their children at home.

很多白人家长不愿意让自己的孩子和黑人孩子一起上学。 他们把孩子留在家里，不让他们去学校。