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Battiste, Harold - Photograph - Seated at a piano
A photograph of Harold Battiste seated at the piano, Circa 1996. Learn more »
Bridges, Ruby - Photograph - Entering William Frantz Elementary with Federal Marshalls
On November 14, 1960 Ruby Bridges entered the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans under the protection of armed federal marshals. ZoomifyLearn more »
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown V. Board of Education, Ephemera. Learn more »
Citizens' Committee - Pamphlet Cover - Report Proceedings for the Annulment of Act 111 of 1890 by the Citizens' Committee of New Orleans, LA
This pamphlet, distributed by the Citizens' Committee of New Orleans, details the group's views on the Annulment of Act 111 of 1890, know as the Separate Car Act. ZoomifyLearn more »
Citizens' Committee - Pamphlet Cover - The Violation of a Constitutional Right
This educational pamphlet, published by the authority of the Citizens' Committee in 1893, details Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine. ZoomifyLearn more »
Dent, Tom - Photograph - Pictured with a Free Southern Theater poster
A photograph of Tom Dent pictured with a poster for the Free Southern Theater. ZoomifyLearn more »
Desegregation - Ephemera - Close Our Schools? pamphlet
This pamphlet was distributed by Save Our Schools (SOS), an influential group of white Orleans Parish community members working to end segregation in the public schools. This pamphlet was returned to SOS with handwritten notes expressing a parent's anger at school integration. ZoomifyLearn more »
Free Southern Theater - Printed Ephemera - "For Those Who Have No Theater"
A poster asking for support for the Free Southern Theater. ZoomifyLearn more »
Haley, Oretha Castle - Photograph - Seated at desk
A photograph of civil rights activist, Oretha Castle Haley. Learn more »
Indian Basketry - Photograph - Indian Women Weaving Cane Baskets
A 1923 photograph of Native American women weaving cane baskets in Elton, Louisiana. ZoomifyLearn more »
Jim Crow Must Go - Photograph - Protest, 1961
A photograph of a New Orleans CORE protest at Woolworths and McCrory's on Canal Street, April 1961. Learn more »
New Orleans Judges
From left to right, Federal judges Herbert Christenberry, J. Skelly Wright, and John Minor Wisdom, who voted down Louisiana's school closing law, which allowed school districts to vote in favor of abandoning desegregation orders. ZoomifyLearn more »
Nkombo - Journal cover - vol. 3, no. 1, March 1971
The front cover of Nkombo, vol. 3, no. 1, March 1971. BLKARTSOUTH published 9 issues between 1968 to 1974. ZoomifyLearn more »
Salary Schedule - Ephemera - Table outlining salaries of white and black teachers in 1942
This table from 1942 outlines the difference in pay African American teachers earned compared to their white counterparts. The NAACP filed suit on behalf of the African American teachers in the case McKelpin v. Orleans Parish School Board, successfully securing equal pay for equal work. ZoomifyLearn more »
School Desegregation - Photograph - An angry white parent kicking an African American man
Many New Orleans citizens adamantly, even violently, opposed the integration of the public schools in 1960. In Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck describes the “cheerleaders,” a group of white parents fighting integration, as performers who shout “bestial and filthy and degenerate” words at “the littlest Negro girl you ever saw.” A cheerleader is shown here kicking. ZoomifyLearn more »
School Desegregation - Photograph - Demonstrators at Frantz School
Demonstrators show their opposition to the desegregation of Orleans Parish Public Schools in November 1960. ZoomifyLearn more »
School Desegregation - Photograph - Newspaper clipping with Federal Marshal Wallace Downs
In November 1960, four African American girls needed the protection of federal marshals to integrate the Orleans Parish public schools. ZoomifyLearn more »
School Desegregation - Photograph - Opposition to Judge J. Skelly Wright
Federal Judge J. Skelly Wright faced severe opposition to his decision ordering the desegregation of the Orleans Parish public schools in 1960, including a well-organized attempt to have him impeached. ZoomifyLearn more »
School Desegregation - Photograph - Protesters near the Orleans Parish School Board office
Citizens protest the integration of Orleans Parish public school near the school board offices in 1960. ZoomifyLearn more »
School Desegregation - Photograph - Teenagers protesting in 1960 New Orleans
White teenagers in New Orleans shown protesting the integration of the public schools in 1960. ZoomifyLearn more »
