On May 17, 1954, racial segregation of public schools was declared unconstitutional in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision. The following year, African American parents in New Orleans sued the Orleans Parish School Board for its failure to comply with the Court's ruling. In February of 1956, the board was ordered by […]

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