Leona Tate

Leona Tate (born 1954) is one of the three African American children to have desegregated the McDonogh 19 Elementary School in 1960.[1]

Tate was born in New Orleans.[2] She and her family were selected among many applicants to be the initial implementers of integration. As soon as she and her peers began attending school, the white children were pulled out; for 18 months they were the only students in the class.[3] In 1962, the school became an all black-school and as a result, Tate and her two friends transferred to T.J. Semms.[4]

She is the founder of the Leona Tate Foundation for Change that is now housed in the historic school building[5] after a refurbishing of the facility that was damaged in 2005's Hurricane Katrina.[1]

References
  1. "Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn". The Hechinger Report. 2019-01-01. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  2. "Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. "First Day of School, 1960, New Orleans". The Kitchen Sisters. 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  4. Gross, Logan. "McDonogh 19: Desegregation of the New Orleans School System - Stop 8 of 8 on the Modern Civil Rights in New Orleans tour". New Orleans Historical. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  5. "Home | New Orleans | Leona Tate Foundation". Leonatate. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
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