Timeline
The timeline covers the politics involved in the desegregation of New Orleans public schools. The timeline dates back to implementing segregation in the South, resistance to the inequality that came from that decision, and the Supreme Court’s decision to integrate schools approximately 60 years after segregation. The timeline also shows how white resistance in New Orleans politics existed during this period in an attempt to ensure segregation continued. Despite this resistance, the Supreme Court still ruled against their initial judgment in the mid-1890s.
Map
The map shows the locations of New Orleans public schools during the 1950s. It intended to examine the locations of Black and white public schools to look for patterns in school segregation in neighborhoods. However, Hurricane Katrina destroyed most of New Orleans’ public schools, replacing them with charter schools. Instead, this map examines addresses located in public schools around the 1950s. Based on the map, denial of financial support was possible in several public schools established in the 1930s and 40s in hazardous zones. These zones are also incomplete data and don’t account for suburbanization in the 1950s.