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Segregation started with the whites didn’t like the blacks and the blacks didn’t like the whites. In the movie Ruby Bridges Ruby had to go through mobs of people because they didn’t want her to go to an all white school. The white people didn’t want there kids going to the school because Ruby was going to the school at the time. Ruby had to start going to school by herself and the marshals told her not to look back at the people. One of the white parents told Ruby that she would poison her. Ruby didn’t eat a couple days after that, all she ate was junk food. During school she would hide her food because she didn’t want her mom's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. A month later or so the ganader found lot of sandwiches in a cabinet and they saw what the problem was. The problem was it smelled weird in there classroom. Ruby told her teacher that was because she didn’t want a lot of her mom's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Rubys teacher told her mom that Rudy wanted a different type of sandwich. Ruby's mom started to make her different sandwiches in her lunch. Ruby still didn’t eat regular food she still ate …show more content…

The white kids that went to school there moms told them not to play with her. Rudy was still sad that she didn’t have anyone to play with, but she would play with her teacher. Ruby wanted to play with her other friends that lived in their neighborhood but they didn’t want to because she went to a white school. At the time Ruby was the only one who was going to that white school because she was very smart. The white kids that did go to school with Ruby started to play with her at resses. One of the kids told Ruby that he played behind his mothers back because he now wanted to play with Ruby. Everyday Ruby would have someone to play with at resses and sit by at lunch. Ruby would start to eat her lunch Everyday at school she was now very happy to have

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