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A review by nitya
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Although this is aimed at a much younger audience (kids/preteens), I think that adults should read this too. Ruby's story is so powerful and proves that 60 years later "the problem we all live with" never went away, even with legislation and a Black president. There's still SO much work to be done, and Ruby's book offers today's young activists a personal look at one of the most pivotal social/political events in the US. There's the myth that racism and prejudice are things of the past, but as "This Is Your Time" shows, they weren't that long ago and never disappeared. Racism lives on because adults pass it down to their children and grandchildren, a cycle of brutality, violence and hatred for something many people have zero control over. Nobody is born a racist, but unfortunately they learn how to be one early on.
This book is short (about 52 pages) and has photographs from the 1960s-1970s civil rights rallies and various Black Lives Matter marches. The inclusion of some photos both shocked and enraged me (the coffin one for example). And the knowledge that the school is segregated again, especially after the Bridges family's work and sacrifices, is bittersweet indeed.
The dedication was beautiful and both broke and healed my heart too.
The people united, will never be defeated.
This book is short (about 52 pages) and has photographs from the 1960s-1970s civil rights rallies and various Black Lives Matter marches. The inclusion of some photos both shocked and enraged me (the coffin one for example). And the knowledge that the school is segregated again, especially after the Bridges family's work and sacrifices, is bittersweet indeed.
The dedication was beautiful and both broke and healed my heart too.
The people united, will never be defeated.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, and Violence