Tate spoke with Verite News about her experience as a member of the “McDonogh Three,” her mixed-use housing and civil rights center that’s inside the former McDonogh 19 building in the Lower 9th Ward and the current state of racial equity in the United States.

Tag: The Historic New Orleans Collection

Civil rights pioneer Leona Tate talks about integrating New Orleans schools, racial justice

New exhibit connects chattel slavery to mass incarceration in Louisiana

Manuel ‘Fess’ Manetta: Musician who mastered many instruments

Louis Armstrong had a secret

The Historic New Orleans Collection highlights struggles, achievements of local suffrage movement