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Jenkintown Middle School
Mary and Malia
West & Highland Ave.s
Jenkintown, PA 19046
Ruby Bridges-Hall
The Ruby Bridges Educational Foundation
P.O. Box 870248
New Orleans, LA 70187
Dear Sir or Madam:
We are 7th Grade students living in southeastern Pennsylvania. Jenkintown is just north of Philadelphia. Malia is thirteen, and I am twelve. We heard of you and your foundation through our teachers, and their research projects. We were so interested in you so we read the picture book, Through My Eyes. We are amazed of the work you accomplished in your life.
While we were researching the time of your life when you integrated the William Frantz school we wondered, when you were in school did you have any ideas of what you were going to do when you got to the adult age? What did you think you would be doing now in your life? Did any other of your teachers after you integrated the school treat you the same as Mrs. Henry? We know that your second grade teacher didnt like you that much. If you were your parents, would you have let your child integrate a school by herself? Knowing that your parents had different views on the situation, did you have an opinion at the age of your integration? Did you believe one person in the family, and not the others opinions? After hearing of your foundation I wondered how affective it has been. Is the foundation funding other states schools? I know it started with you seeing your old school a while after attending it.
We would like to thank the foundation for better helping society.
Sincerely,
Mary & Malia
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