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Holding onto History: Leona Tate creates New Orleans' first civil rights museum
By Domonique Tolliver, January 21, 2022
Education has always been at the heart of Leona Tate’s life.
Born in 1954 in the Lower 9th Ward, Tate took the first steps toward finally breaking the back of school segregation in New Orleans when she, along with Tessie Prevost and Gail Etienne, walked past angry white protesters and through the doors of McDonogh 19 Elementary School on Nov. 14, 1960, to become the first Black students at the school.
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Ringing the Bell Workshop
The Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc. and the Historic New Orleans Collection partnered to present the 2022 LTFC Ringing the Bell Workshop. Teachers from across the New Orleans Metropolitan Area gathered at the TEP Center to learn from LTFC, the People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond and the Beloved Community about engaging students in culturally responsive Cilvil Rights lessons.