Segregation & public facilities
New Orleans empties two schools rather than share them
14 November 1960 - May 1961McDonogh 19 and William Frantz elementary schools, the Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA
Four Black six-year-olds entered two white elementary schools in the Ninth Ward in November 1960. White families withdrew nearly every other child, and a crowd gathered daily to scream at them.
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