Little Receipts Vol. 6 — Kids Who Changed History (Capstone) (Standard Companion Edition — EPUB Edition)

Six-year-old Ruby Bridges, escorted by federal marshals, integrates William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans in 1960 — her 'first' told in its true scope, one of four girls who integrated the city's schools that fall, and the only child in her Frantz classroom. Birmingham's schoolchildren march in 1963; their arrests are printed as the attributed ranges the sources give — about 600 to almost 1,000 on May 2 alone, depending on the source — never as one settled number. Claudette Colvin, fifteen, refuses her Montgomery bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks, and later stands as a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the case that actually ended bus segregation there. Stevie Wonder signs with Motown at eleven — not twelve, as early drafts of this series' own outline said; twelve belongs to his debut album, and the chapter teaches the correction — and at thirteen tops the charts with 'Fingertips,' the youngest solo artist to top the Hot 100, in Guinness's scoped words. Barbara Johns, sixteen, leads her classmates out of a Virginia school built for 180 students and holding far more, and their case travels into Brown v. Board of Education. The closing chapter hands the reader the pen: every hero in this series started as a kid with a question, a talent, or a 'no' they would not accept. All 6 chapters, full text (15,913 words). Every chapter closes with its sources and a method note — where the record disagrees, the disagreement is printed, not papered over. The clean EPUB edition (STANDARD COMPANION EDITION), readable on any e-reader, tablet, or phone. The chapters: Ruby Bridges Walks In · The Youngest Marchers: Birmingham's Children in 1963 · Claudette Colvin Says No — Before Rosa Parks · Little Stevie Wonder Signs at Eleven · Barbara Johns Walks Out of School · Now It's Your Turn: A Reader's Receipt. Big history. Little readers. All receipts.