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Alone in the South, the Crescent City schools experienced classroom integration during Reconstruction. The experiment was both extensive and successful. But it collapsed when the so-called Redeemers used violence to purge the schools and to restore segregation. The severe reaction almost destroyed the entire system of public education. And, after the schools slowly reemerged, fully segregated, they faced another round of turmoil in the middle of the twentieth century, as federal courts responded to a long tradition of local black protest and made New Orleans the first testing ground for desegregation in the Deep South.
It would be hard to find any urban public school system anywhere in the Western world which has faced a similar level of struggle and travail. Understanding this troubled past should disabuse any reader of the notion that the current crisis in public education in New Orleans and other large American cities is of recent origin or open to easy, simple remedy.
That the original ideals of American public education have come down to the present era flawed and unfulfilled should not be surprising. It is mor
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