Protest Hew Rulings-- Evangeline Forms Private School: desks sit idle in the public schools here, while hundreds of white elementary school students pack their books to a nightclub, grocery store and other makeshift school buildings. High school students attend classes in a converted cattle auction barn. It's part of the protest in Louisiana against federal court school desegregation orders. And in Evangeline Parish-- French-speaking Cajun country-- the protest is quiet but elaborate. Ville Platte children play outside the country store that became the school "Evangeline Academy," during the school integration controversy.

Associated Press ID #6912161152

On verso: manuscript title and newspaper caption with date stamp affixed.

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This object has the following keywords:

• Barns
• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Court Orders
• Education
• Evangeline Parish
• Injustice
• Play
• Racial Discrimination
• School closures
• Students

• Image Dimensions: 5 15/16 x 9 9/16 in. (15.08 x 24.29 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 6 11/16 x 10 7/16 in. (16.99 x 26.51 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin