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The McDonogh Three is a nickname for the three girls who desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School, in New Orleans. Even though segregated schools had been illegal since the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, no states in the American Deep South had taken action to integrate their schools. Leona Tate, , and had all attended the black-only schools in their neighborhood, until November 14, 1960, when they arrived at McDonogh No. 19, a previously all-white segregated school. On that fateful morning, the girls were escorted by United States Federal Marshals wearing yellow armbands to execute the mission of school integration. Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Etienne lived in the lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, a neighborhood where black and white people lived separately by block.

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  • The McDonogh Three is a nickname for the three girls who desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School, in New Orleans. Even though segregated schools had been illegal since the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, no states in the American Deep South had taken action to integrate their schools. Leona Tate, , and had all attended the black-only schools in their neighborhood, until November 14, 1960, when they arrived at McDonogh No. 19, a previously all-white segregated school. On that fateful morning, the girls were escorted by United States Federal Marshals wearing yellow armbands to execute the mission of school integration. Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Etienne lived in the lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, a neighborhood where black and white people lived separately by block. (en)
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  • The McDonogh Three is a nickname for the three girls who desegregated McDonogh 19 Elementary School, in New Orleans. Even though segregated schools had been illegal since the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954, no states in the American Deep South had taken action to integrate their schools. Leona Tate, , and had all attended the black-only schools in their neighborhood, until November 14, 1960, when they arrived at McDonogh No. 19, a previously all-white segregated school. On that fateful morning, the girls were escorted by United States Federal Marshals wearing yellow armbands to execute the mission of school integration. Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Etienne lived in the lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, a neighborhood where black and white people lived separately by block. That same day, a girl named Ruby Bridges integrated a second New Orleans public school called William Frantz Elementary, which led to a collective nickname for the group: The New Orleans Four. (en)
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