1 Look at Source B and read Source C. Imagine you are a reporter in New Orleans in 1960. Write a news story to accompany the photograph and include a short interview with Charles Burks.
Ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events sometimes make history, but it is very rare for them to do so at the age of 6. That is how old Ruby Bridges was in 1960 when, at her mother’s insistence, she took a test for entry to the previously all-white William Frantz School near her home in New Orleans. She was one of six African-American children in the whole of the city who passed the test, and the only one who would be attending William Frantz School.
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