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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Orleans Parish School Board president Lloyd Rittiner and member Emile Wagner speaking about court-ordered school desegregation in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from 1960 Orleans Parish School Board president Lloyd Rittiner explains why the majority of the school board has agreed to the comply with court-ordered school integration, and school board member Emile Wagner presents his opposition to desegregation in New Orleans, Louisiana.The clip begins with school board president Lloyd Rittiner standing in front of an unnamed school building, speaking to a reporter. Rittiner shares his belief, and that of three other school board members that "it is better to have a public school system, even integrated, than to have no educational system at all." Next, school board member Emile Wagner, the one member who refused to agree to the court-ordered school integration, emphasizes his belief that students would be best educated under a segregated system.In 1956, federal judge J. Skelly Wright overturned New Orleans school segregation laws and ordered the Orleans Parish School Board to submit plans for school integration. In response to this ruling, and to the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Louisiana State legislature passed several laws seeking to prevent any school integration in the state. After several years of delay, Judge Wright ordered the school board to present a desegregation plan by May 1960. When the board refused to comply, Judge Wright ordered New Orleans schools to begin a grade-a-year desegregation plan, beginning that fall with the first grade. On August 29, 1960, Lloyd Rittiner and the school board, minus the protesting Emile Wagner, met with Judge...
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. History
  2. Louisiana
  3. Men, White
  4. New Orleans
  5. New Orleans (La.)
  6. Race Relations
  7. School Board Members
  8. School Board Presidents
  9. School Integration
  10. Segregation In Education
  11. Segregationists

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