The new children’s book I Am Ruby Bridges details how Ruby Bridges made history at only six years old.

Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, in 1954, the same year as the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ended racial segregation in schools. In 1960, six-year-old Ruby walked into an all-white New Orleans elementary school with crowds of children and adults screaming abuse at her. She was the first Black student to desegregate a school in the state of Louisiana.

Bridges became an icon of the civil rights movement and was memorialized in Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “The Problem We All Live With.” It depicts a young Ruby in a white dress carrying her notebooks and a ruler surrounded by U.S. Marshalls.

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Bridges said in a press release about the picture book, illustrated by New York Times Bestselling illustrator Nikkolas Smith, "It's not just about my experience integrating schools. It's also about the innocent ways that a child sees the world. Writing as my six-year-old self reminded me how differently kids interpret things than adults do. Children are much better at finding humor in everything, and even in times of great challenge, that's what this book really does. It allows young kids to learn history in a fun way, which is something that I'm very passionate about."

The book is released through Scholastic and is available now.