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A New Orleans community center rises from its ugly history as a segregated school

  • Written by Connie L. Schaffer, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageA U.S. Federal Marshal escorts Gail Etienne to her first day of school on Nov. 14, 1960. Underwood Archives/Getty Images

They were known as “the McDonogh Three,” and unlike many stories of the tumultuous civil rights era, this one has a hopeful ending.

On May 4, 2022, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost are scheduled to cut the...

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