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Integration Protest Outside New Orleans Area Catholic School
In Buras Louisiana parents protest school desegregation outside Our Lady of Good Harbor No 2 as white pupils largely stay away and the crowd thins. Frantic appeals and threats mark the stand with several families citing promises of segregation while archdiocesan leaders acknowledge gradual integration efforts.
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Bouras
Nechildren
Jimmy Madere
Our Lady of Good Harbor
Archdiocese of
New Orleans
Buras
Madere
Schneider