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One of the first Black students to attend an all-white school in the Deep South is preserving the Lower 9th Ward elementary school she helped integrate in 1960 as a civil rights center.

Six-year-old Leona Tate is escorted by U.S. Marshals from McDonogh 19 Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 15, 1960.

Summer campers in New Orleans are getting to walk in the footsteps of school desegregation pioneers at a new civil rights center in the Lower 9 th Ward. "We are here at historic McDonogh 19 now ...