As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 1, 2019
NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. The story’s breadth is rarely explained, said Tate, who wants visitors to McDonogh 19 to learn the history, within the very space where history was made. “I Board decision.
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