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Summary Of Glenn Mccoy's 'Ruby Bridges'

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Cartoonist Glenn McCoy contradicts himself. At the same time that he expresses that Betsy DeVos was put into the same situation as Ruby Bridges, he also implies that a wealthy, privileged, white woman suffered the same or even more hardship as a small black girl. A small black girl that, during the 1960s, was permitted to go to an all-white school. That girl's name is Ruby Bridges, she was just six years old, and she went against all the hate given to her for being black, the protests done by white parents to stop her from entering the school, and her fellow classmates that did not show up to school just because she was attending to that school. On the contrary, DeVos was given a position to be in charge of public education even though she

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