One day, Ruby's mom told her that

she was going to go to a new school.

Ruby was sad that she had to leave

her friends from her old school,

but she obeyed her mom. 

She was soon enrolled in

William Frantz Elementary.

Ruby's first day of school was 

scary.

Some men in suits came to pick 

her up 

in a car and take her to school.

Her mom came with her too.

Ruby did not know why she 

had to go to a new school or that

people there would not be nice to

her. So she asked her mom, and 

her mother told her that the 

government wanted her to go to 

a new school. They had made a 

law

and Ruby was helping them. 

When Ruby got to the school

a lot of people were there.

It was really loud and it reminded 

Ruby of Mardi Gras. 

The marshals told Ruby that 

they would walk her into school.

When Ruby finally walked through the

front doors, she and her mom sat

in the principle's office all day.  

The next day Ruby met her teacher, Mrs. Henry.

She was Mrs. Henry's only student because

the other boys and girls had been taken out 

of the school by their parents. Their white parents

did not like black people so they especially 

disliked Ruby. 

Day by day Ruby came back to school. 

She stayed with Mrs. Henry and then 

was driven home by the marshals.