The New Orleans Four ( it wasn't just Ruby Bridges, there were 3 other little girls)

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Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
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In 1960, school desegregation in New Orleans began with four little girls. Ruby Bridges' story is well-known, but the other girls' accounts remained untold for years. These are their stories: https://comca.st/3rk9Voc
Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost
7:35 AM · Feb 1, 2022

https://voicesofthecivilrightsmovement.com/Articles/New-Orleans-4?linkId=150421989

Leona Tate's perception of race changed drastically in November 1960 — when she became one of the first Black children to desegregate New Orleans schools.

Prior to that time, many held similar views of race relations in the city. According to published reports, New Orleans residents viewed themselves and the city as "cosmopolitan and tolerant" and assumed that New Orleans would be a "model Southern city for school integration."

But as years passed after the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, New Orleans found itself in a situation widespread across the South, where resistance to desegregation ultimately escalated to violence.

Some stories from this era of "massive resistance" to racial integration are widely known, such as the Little Rock Nine, a group of Black students blocked from entering Little Rock Central High School when Gov. Orval Faubus called out the Arkansas National Guard; the violent riots at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith became the first Black student to enroll; and 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, whose path to enter a New Orleans elementary school accompanied by U.S. Marshals was immortalized in an iconic Normal Rockwell painting.

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