Black Excellence: Tessie Prevost
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/nx-s1-5034337/tessie-prevost-new-orleans-school-desegregation-dies
NEW ORLEANS — Tessie Prevost, a pioneer of school desegregation in the Deep South, has died.
She was one of the first young Black girls who integrated New Orleans public schools after federal courts forced the system to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling that declared segregated schools unconstitutional.