desegregation

On the ballot for parts of East Baton Rouge Parish, there’s a measure to create a new city: The City of St. George. It’s the first step to carving out a…

As part of their civil rights oral history project, The Historic New Orleans Collection is documenting the 1960 desegregation of New Orleans schools. Pam…

As the city approaches the end of its tricentennial year, professors at the University of New Orleans and the University of Holy Cross are looking back on…

When Americans are taught the story of school desegregation, they learn about the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of…

The civil rights movement witnessed students becoming teachers as they propelled social change. New Orleanian and lifelong activist Raphael Cassimere was…

School desegregation was a major turning point of the civil rights movement, especially here in New Orleans. In this edition of NOLA Life Stories, we meet…

The Jefferson Parish public school system's desegregation task force will hold public meetings Monday and Tuesday.NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports the…