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The National Civil Rights Museum, in partnership with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, is proud to host the Ruby Bridges Reading Festival! The festival, in its fifth year, celebrates Bridges’ legacy of advocating for equal rights through quality education and provides a critical resource for literacy advancement for area students.
Children pre-K through eighth grade not only can select among thousands of free books at the festival, but they can also enjoy storytelling and entertainment. The event will feature music, balloon art, magic shows, craft activities, and storytelling.
GUEST READERS:
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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, author of children’s books Through My Eyes, Ruby Bridges Goes to School, This Is Your Time, This Is My Story, and her September 2022 release, I Am Ruby Bridges
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Civil rights icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland who authored She Stood for Freedom.
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Nikkolas Smith, children’s book illustrator of I Am Ruby Bridges
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Children’s book author, Nancy Churnin who wrote Martin and Anne, Beautiful Shades of Brown, and Charlie Takes His Shot
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Children’s book author Michael Waters and his daughter Liberty Waters who is the subject of Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip.
The outdoor festival is picnic-style in the museum’s Founders Park and courtyard. Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. In case of rain, the festival will take place inside the museum’s boarding house.
The event is sponsored by Ruby Bridges Foundation, International Paper, Scholastic, Toyota Bodine, Wells Fargo, Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Georgia Pacific Memphis Cellulose, and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
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