The Starting Line-Up

ID: 4419 ~ Source: The Louisiana Weekly, Sept. 13, 1958.

This file appears in: Passing Gentilly Boulevard on the Bus to UNO in 1958

Approximately 55 African-American students attended classes that first semester. Some of them (including Joseph Narcisse, the tall young man on the left) are seen leaving registration in this photo from The Louisiana Weekly.

This file appears in: Passing Gentilly Boulevard on the Bus to UNO in 1958

Passing Gentilly Boulevard on the Bus to UNO in 1958

By Becky Retz

Gentilly Boulevard crosses the Elysian Fields bus route at the next traffic light after passing under Interstate-610. When the bus passed this stop on that Monday morning in 1958, it suddenly became a…