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Episode 71: Black Children, White Schools
Ruby Bridges leaving William Frantz Elementary School, in New Orleans in on or about November 14, 1960. Bridges became one of the first four Black children to integrate a White school in that city after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Federal marshals are protecting her from the violent White mob outside the frame.
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Tessie Prevost woke up and put on one of her prettiest dresses.
Like Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Ruby Bridges, Tessie was a very special little girl. Along with hundreds of other Black children, the New Orleans Four, as they would forever be…
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