“They Didn’t Want Us” - The Experience of Desegregation
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2022
- Gail Etienne Stripling is one of four little girls who desegregated New Orleans public schools. Etienne Stripling remembers looking out the window of the car driven by a U.S. Marshal, as they made their way to McDonogh 19 Elementary for the first day of class. She recalls seeing an angry mob of people and her fear that they would hurt her if they could get to her. Two years later, she and others desegregated a second school, and experienced daily mistreatment by white students and teachers.
Desegregation of New Orleans schools "with all deliberate speed" was ordered in 1956 by U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright. By 1960, integration had not yet taken place and JudgeWright issued a federal order to gradually desegregate New Orleans schools, beginning with students in first grade, and expanding one grade level each year as the students progressed.
For more on the New Orleans Four, read our feature article, and watch our interviews with Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, Dorothy Prevost, and New Orleans Four Legacy Project Founder Diedra Meredith.
biggest mistake
Being a 1963 baby. All i can say is thanks to all who paved the way for me. It allowed me the get a college education. And have a comfortable life , raise 2 children sin racism in Los Angeles😍💘
Fast forward to 2024, teaching in a high school with no racial majority, my daily experience is seeing students watching Tik Tok or texting while ignoring the possibility of a free education.
I think their parents did the wrong thing to use these little children as guinea pig's! 😢
In the 50's and 60's my eastern europen country was supporting international students from Africa in recieving higher academic education, many African leaders aquiered university degree in the ex Eastern Bloc, and now here are the USA, teaching us morales...
Bless her and the other little girls. Grateful for their parents too. It must have been torturous to see their child go through that. I still can't fathom how the other parents and teachers would be so awful to another human being, ESPECIALLY a child. They made an incredible difference though. My schools have always been a better place because of the People of Color I've met there. (hopefully I said that right-it was definitely meant to be respectful of the sacrifice these girls and many others have gone through to get to where we are today)
.&&&& Thank you Jesus for keeping these people alive to tell there stories. . . . . . .❤❤❤❤❤
Wow she looks stupendous 😃. I'm glad she was able to share her story! (:
I had not ever known about this! I was today years old, when this lady’s cousin, who also happens to be one of my best friends, shared the story of segregation with me. 😮
What a wonderful lady!
Should have never desegregated!!! It put us behind instead of the power and love that we would be to this day!!!
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It's easy for us to see who was bred to be a doctor, but it was or is very difficult to see who was bred to be an attorney. I know it very well in one colony, but i belive that is for a reason per how we did building treaty matters, known as civil rights.
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