View of Leona Tate and escorts entering or exiting McDonogh 19 next to station wagon

ID: 6052 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Jules Cahn Collection, 1996.123.1.107.11, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/313256. ~ Creator: Jules Cahn, photographer ~ Date: November 1960

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

The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC)

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

Leona Tate: Integrating McDonogh 19 Elementary School

By Terri Rushing

In the 1954 Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting states from…