Word: mcdonoughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each morning the women gathered in an ecstasy of hatred on the streets of New Orleans, where two schools had been ordered by U.S. courts to integrate. They shrieked like harridans, cursed, kicked and clawed at the few who dared brave their lines. At McDonough 19 School, a boycott by white pupils was complete: three Negro girls, all first-graders, attended alone. But at William Frantz School a six-year-old Negro girl was joined by two white children, then by four, then by six, and at week's end by ten. New Orleans seemed ready to return...
...eruption of rioting which accompanied the entrance of four Negro first graders into New Orleans' McDonough and William Frantz elementary schools last Monday was the forseeable culmination of action begun last May. At that time U.S. District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered the New Orleans school board to desegregate public schools this fall. When it became evident recently that the board, including its segregationist president Lloyd Rittinger, was going to comply with the order, the state legislature met in special session and passed resolutions resisting the court decree...