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Feb 10, 2024 · The handsome Italianate-style building at Webster and Perrier Street opened in 1901 as LaSalle Elementary School. A 1951 Times-Picayune article touted LaSalle as “the first school in the city...
- Blake Pontchartrain
sheltered students for the next 100 years, first as an elementary school and, later, as home to the prestigious N.O. Center for Creative Arts. Above and below, abandoned LaSalle School today.
2 days ago · On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in July 2024 with the promises of the post-Brown era still unfulfilled.
2 days ago · Oct 31, 2024, 5:26 AM. New Orleans schools still separate and unequal 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education. New Orleans Board of Education Bettmann Louisiana State University US Supreme Court. First graders led the desegregation of New Orleans' public schools in November 1960. Bettmann via Getty.
Mar 7, 2014 · Students learn in new state-of-the-art classrooms in the same school building where Ruby Bridges helped to end school segregation in New Orleans. The moment was recaptured in 1963 by Norman Rockwell in his painting “The Problem We All Live With.”
LaSalle Elementary School New Orleans, LA. Did you attend LaSalle Elementary School on Perrier Street in uptown New Orleans, LA? It was near Audubon Park. This is the only webpage (that I could find) on the whole Internet about LaSalle Elementary School! PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT!
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Greetings to all LaSalle Alumni.