In public schools and city swimming pools, on the basketball courts and in courts of law, it took men, women and children of all ages to achieve equality. Hear the stories of four brave Black girls in New Orleans, surrounded by federal marshals, who desegregated the first public schools in Louisiana. Learn about four college students who made Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (later renamed University of Louisiana at Lafayette) — one of the first previously all-white, state-supported Colleges in the South — peacefully desegregate.
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In public schools and city swimming pools, on the basketball courts and in courts of law, it took men, women and children of all ages to achieve equality.