Ruby Bridges (Film)

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Ruby Bridges is TV movie, based on the true story of Ruby Bridges. This movie was realeased in 1998, directed by Euzhan Palcy and written by Toni Ann Johnson. This movie shares the story of one of the first black students in 1960 to attend integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a six-year-old, Bridges was one of four black first-graders, chosen based on test scores, to attend previously all-white public schools in New Orleans. The film was nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image award. The writer, Toni Ann Johnson, won the 1998 Humanitas Prize for her teleplay. The film also won The Christopher Award. [1]

Plot

This film presents the real-life tale of young Ruby Bridges (Chaz Monet), one of the first African-American children to attend an integrated school in the Deep South. When she is 6 years old, Bridges is chosen to go to an all-white school in New Orleans, as a racially divided region, this scenery causing an outrage. Among individuals who attempt to assist Bridges with changing the tense situation are teacher Barbara Henry (Penelope Ann Miller) and Dr. Robert Coles (Kevin Pollak), a child psychiatrist. [2]

Controversy

Ruby Bridges was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there. Despite the fact that she faced a mob filled with furious white citizens consistently, she emerged unscathed, physically or emotionally. The 6-year-old title character, chosen as one of the principal African Americans to go to a white school, is accompanied by government marshals every morning past a shouting crowd, fist-waving protesters: an ordinary-looking mother who screams that she’s going to hang or poison Bridges, clean-cut young men who are red with rage, a grandmother who holds a model of a black child in a coffin. In the days that follow, Ruby's father loses his job (as a Korean War veteran, he feels particularly betrayed), the white owner of a grocery store tells Ruby's family to stop shopping, and even the black neighbors turn on the Bridges on account of the defensive police barriers and different interruptions in everybody's lives. [3]

See also

References

  1. Ruby Bridges (film). Wikipedia. Retrieved February 2 2021.
  2. Ruby Bridges. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved Februray 2 2021.
  3. Miller, Daryl H. ‘Ruby Bridges’ Looks at a Hateful World. LA Times. 17 Jan 1999. Retrieved February 2 2021.