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New Orleans schools still separate and unequal 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education

  • Written by Connie L. Schaffer, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageFirst graders led the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools in November 1960.Bettmann via Getty

Sixty-four years ago this November, public schools in New Orleans began to desegregate. School buildings once designated as “white” opened their doors to Black students. The integration process, which deeply divided the city, was led...

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