Each morning the women gathered in an ecstasy of hatred on the streets of New Orleans, where two schools had been ordered by U.S. courts to integrate. They shrieked like harridans, cursed, kicked and clawed at the few who dared brave their lines. At McDonough 19 School, a boycott by white pupils was complete: three Negro girls, all first-graders, attended alone. But at William Frantz School a six-year-old Negro girl was joined by two white children, then by four, then by six, and at week's end by ten. New Orleans seemed ready to return to the U.S.
The battle of...
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