Discrimination In Ruby Bridges's Through My Eyes

Racial hatred traumatized countless African Americans who would fight for their rights. Rights that people now take for granted. Martin Luther King, Jr. suffered from discrimination throughout his entire life. He helped motivate people to stand up for what they believed in and he taught them to never give up. He also helped many children and families throughout his life. In his “I Have a Dream” speech he states:
“But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”(King 1).
Many people , from all races

She was a young African American girl. At the age of 7 she had the opportunity to merge into an all-white school. Her teacher, Mrs. Henry, was a white woman. She helped her through the big change of integrating into an all white student school. Everyday, when Ruby would go to school, there was a mob of white people that threatened her and would scream horrible things to her. Every morning when Ruby entered the door to Mrs. Henry’s class, Mrs. Henry was always standing there to greet Ruby with a giant smile. Mrs. Henry also stood up for Ruby. She stood up to the principal who wanted to change Ruby’s test score on her year end test. Ruby had done excellent on the test, but the principal was going to lower Ruby’s score, so that she would not be accepted into the school the following year. Mrs. Henry stood up for Ruby and told that principal that changing her test score was not right and that she was making a fool out of herself. At the end of the year, a group of kids started playing with her. One young boy would always stare at her and be rude. One day he said, “My mama said I can’t play with you because you’re a nigger”. Young children were raised to think that racial discrimination was okay and they did not know any other way to act. Ruby accomplished many things throughout the remainder of her life (list a couple thing.) She was

African Americans never believed that the situation would end, although we as a society, have made it far, we still have a long way to go. I believe we need to all stand up for what we believe in no matter if someone has take us to shun them. We all have a right to freedom of speech to share our opinion so I believe we should take an advantage of that and use it. People need to focus on ways to help other people to make our society a better place.Motivation was a key factor that helped people stand up for what they believed in.Motivation was all it would take to get what they