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...Orleans this year has seven Negro children peacefully attending five formerly all-white schools. To this relative progress the school board last week added an ironic footnote. One of the board's continuing problems has been McDonogh 19 School, notorious in 1960 as the place where spitting white harridans created ugly disorders. Totting up McDonogh's still sharply reduced enrollment-five Negroes, 15 whites in a school built for 570-the school board converted once all-white McDonogh to an all-Negro school...
...Orleans elementary schools, the court order was still being treated with legalized contempt. At the William Frantz school, where as many as 23 white students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster. At McDonogh 19 the white boycott was complete; the only students were three little Negro first-graders. Then one day the boycott seemed to crack. Gregory Thompson, 10, reported to McDonogh 19. A couple of days later, Greg's brother Michael, 8, walked to school with...
Neither the Thompson boys nor their father John, 33, were particularly concerned with the scrap over school integration. Alabama-reared John Thompson had moved his family of seven into the McDonogh 19 school district after the boycott began, joined his neighbors in sending his boys on the long bus ride to the lily-white schools of St. Bernard Parish. Then Thompson noticed that Greg was reading from the same primer he had used the year before in Alabama, where "the schools ain't too far ahead." And one rainy day the school bus driver bawled the boys...
...embattled New Orleans, where one school is integrated, a third-grade white boy peacefully broke the total white boycott at another, McDonogh No. 19. To aid many city teachers, who went unpaid because the segregationist state legislature froze school funds, Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison asked people to pay property taxes not due until May, quickly got enough to pay salaries in full for January...
...named for Philanthropist John McDonogh, who bequeathed part of his fortune to establish public schools in New Orleans...