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Hoots & Hoses. D-day morning came last week, humid and sultry. By 8 a.m. crowds had begun to gather in front of McDonogh 19* and William J. Frantz, the two elementary schools chosen for integrated first-grade classes. Squads of city police stood guard, some joking with the baiters, carefully refusing to answer the taunting question: "Are the niggers here yet?" Shortly after 9, when the white children were safely in class, patrolmen herded traffic away from the two schools. Up drove several carloads of U.S. marshals with their charges: three neatly dressed, hair-ribboned, six-year-old Negro girls...
Next morning a mob of some 350 teenagers from nearby Nicholls High School cut classes and charged toward McDonogh 19, roaring out a football-styled chant: "Two-Four-Six-Eight, We Don't Want to Integrate." Police steered the students away from their target, but segregationist tempers started to flare. That night 6,000 whites jammed into a White Citizen's Council rally at the municipal auditorium. They stamped and shouted as former State Senator Willie Rainach ranted warnings of the "conspiracy for the destruction of the white race," and Leander Perez, the notorious political boss of Plaquemines...
Next day 2,000 riled-up teen-agers cut classes again (one of the legislature's special acts aimed to make truancy legal) to make another futile dash at McDonogh 19. Joined this time by a throng of adults, they headed downtown for a protest "interview" with Mayor Morrison. At city hall police again blocked the way, ordered them to disperse. Instead, the mob moved on to Carondelet Street, headquarters of the city's school board. There fire trucks backed up another police line, finally scattered them with billowing streams of water. All afternoon and evening, gangs...
...from Tulane's architecture school, took their case to the people. In 60 days, they made 80 different speeches. "We talked in churches, in V.F.W. halls; why, I would even talk in kitchens if I could get five women to listen to me." Eventually, Jacqueline Leonhard won out: McDonogh School No. 39, surrounded by broad playgrounds in the Gentilly area, became the first modern school in the city...
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