The New Orleans desegregation crisis occurred in the late 1950s through the early 1960s alongside the Civil Rights movement. The New Orleans Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) started protesting against segregation in the Orleans Parish School Board in 1950. Part of this argument consisted of frustrations in the Black community that their children were not receiving adequate education compared to their white counterparts. The goal of the NAACP was to ensure Black students could have equal access to education, increase enrollment rates, and get more Black students to continue education through college for upward mobility.