For my final paper, I will be discussing a moral decision from the book about Ruby Bridges the first African American to go to school with all white children. This took place back in the spring of 1960; Ruby took a test and was selected to go to an integrated school with white children. The difficulties presented in this situation are that this happened during the civil rights movement and my ideas for present day probably would have been looked at as irrational back then. In my paper I will be discussing whether or not I would put myself in her shoes and be one of the first African Americans to go to an integrated school and the theories from this course that back this up. The first option that I see available when looking at the theories we have discussed in class is that according to utilitarianism, the right thing to do in this situation is to allow African Americans to go to school integrated with the white children because it would benefit them as a whole race and not only would that cause the most happiness for African Americans; it would also pave the way for other ethnicities to have a chance to be educated in the same settings. This idea would cause the most happiness and in my eyes the least amount of pain because white children wouldn’t be subject to only the ideas of what their parents made them think (I.E racism, bigotry etc.) According to Utilitarianism the wrong thing to do is keep them segregated because other races would not be getting the same education as the white children. The second theory that comes to mind when looking at this situation is: According to Kantian ethics, the right thing to do is to stop treating African Americans as not worthy of being educated in the same settings as white children (Means instead if an end). The Third theory that I looked at was: according to Virtue ethics the right thing to do is allow African Americans to go to school with whites and be integrated because everyone arou