New Orleans Public School Crisis Research Paper

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1 January 2015

New Orleans Public School Crisis

“It began in 1960, but the seeds for it were planted in 1954 when the U.S Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional.”(Brown). The day 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through the doors of William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, Louisiana, she walked into the pages of history. Ruby was the first African American student at this previously all-white school on the 14th of November, 1960. This was the New Orleans Public School Crisis, and this was just the beginning of the riots to come. The New Orleans Publics School Crisis was a defining moment in US history because the integration of African-Americans into all White …show more content…

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