Ben Franklin Yearbook, First Integrated Class

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This file appears in: Integrating Ben Franklin High School

A few yearbook pages showing the sophomore class. This is indicative of the sparse nature of integration. Even as each school was declared to have been "integrated" in newsprint, the city's previously all-white schools still remained nearly entirely white. The struggle to reflect the diversity of the city within the city's schools still exists today.

This file appears in: Integrating Ben Franklin High School

By Graham Cooper
In the fall of 1963, Ben Franklin High School became the first New Orleans public high school to integrate. Fourteen African American students, all of whom met Franklin's stringent admissions…