...AND IT'S ROLE IN THE BIG
EASY.
(CHRISTOPHER LEACH REPORTING)
(CHELSEA)
IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW NEW ORLEANS
HAS QUITE THE HISTORY.
AND AS WE KICK OFF BLACK HISTORY
MONTH -- CHRISTOPHER LEACH
EXAMINES SCHOOL
DESEGREGATION....
...AND IT'S ROLE IN THE BIG
EASY.
(CHRISTOPHER LEACH REPORTING)
NEW ORLEANS WOULD ORGINATE THE
NATIONAL CASE PLESSY VS.
FERGUSSION HELD IN 1896 SETTING
THE STAGE THAT RACIAL
SEGREGATION WAS LEGAL AS LONG AS
THINGS WERE SEPARATE BUT EQUAL--
IN 1954--BROWN VS BOARD OF
EDUCATION WOULD OFFICIALLY BEGIN
TO UNDO OVER HALF A CENTURY OF
SEGREGATION-- AND THE EFFECTS
TRAVELED DOWN-- BACK TO NEW
ORLEANS.
"I just prayed and said that if
I ever got married and had
children, I wanted it better for
my kids. The first two days, I
went with her. People were
everywhere hollering and
screaming.
When we walked up to the school,
they had two policeman standing
there and they told us that we
couldn't go in and the United
States Marshalls said that the
president said we can. When
they said that we walked on in
the school."
said that we walked on in said
we can. When they said that the
president United States
Marshalls couldn't go in and the
policeman standing there school,
they had two When we walked up
to the screaming.
everywhere hollering and LEGAL
AS LONG AS children."
story and teach our don't
continue to tell the that we are
loosing if we lot of history and
culture city. New Orleans has a
happened right in their know the
don't "I visit a lot of schools
and FREEDOM
TESTING NEW EXPRESSION OF BECOME
THE VISABLE THE COUNTRY HAD
"They told me that one of the
city policeman, they had to
arrest him because he had pulled
his gun.
ACROSS TOWN-- LEONA TATE WAS
PART OF THE MCDONOUGH THREE--
THREE GIRLS ABOUT TO JUMP INTO
THE CHARGED ATMOSPHERE OF
MCDONOUGH 19.
"When I woke up, I remember my
house being filled with people,
you would have thought it was
Christmas morning. because
everybody was doing something.
I remember a black car pulling
up in front of the house and it
was the U.S. marshalls comging
to pick us up. We were the only
students for a year and a half."
CHILDREN WERE ON THE FRONT LINES
AND STUDENTS ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY HAD BECOME THE VISABLE
EXPRESSION OF TESTING NEW
FREEDOM
"I visit a lot of schools and
our children today don't know
the history that happened right
in their city. New Orleans has
a lot of history and culture
that we are loosing if we don't
continue to tell the story and
teach our children."
(CHELSEA)
AFTER THE BREAK...BRIAN LET'S
