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Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first black children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
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Ruby Bridges
American civil rights activist (born 1954)
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
McDonogh Three
Students who desegregated a New Orleans public school in 1960
The McDonogh Three is a nickname for three African-American students who desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School, in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Even though school segregation had been illegal since the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, no states in the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
New Orleans school desegregation crisis
1960 unrest following racial desegregation
The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was a period of intense public resistance in New Orleans that followed the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. The conflict peaked when U.S.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)