As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history

NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. This story also appeared in Pacific Standard and The Advocate Images of that November morning in 1960 are seared into the national memory: Tate and three other little first-grade girls in white … Continue reading As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history