Letter to Tessie, Leona, Gail and Ruby

ID: 6008 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, gift of Leona Tate, 90-76-L.10,
http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/222453. ~ Date: 1960

This file appears in: Leona Tate: Integrating McDonogh 19 Elementary School

Letter from Nancy Gabin, Rockport, Massachusetts, to Tessie [Prevost], Leona [Tate], Gail [Etienne] and Ruby [Bridges]. Gabin, six years old, writes to express her support and enclose crayons for the girls.

This file appears in: Leona Tate: Integrating McDonogh 19 Elementary School

Leona Tate: Integrating McDonogh 19 Elementary School

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