Leona Tate became a civil rights activist at the age of six when she desegregated the previously all-white McDonogh 19 public school as part of the “McDonogh Three.” Reinspired by Barack Obama’s election, she founded the Leona Tate Foundation for Change in 2009. The foundation is currently working to transform the McDonogh 19 school building into The Tate, Etienne, and Prevost (TEP) Interpretive Center. This facility will include an educational space dedicated to teaching New Orleans’ Civil Rights history.
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