(14 Nov 2024)
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New Orleans – 14 November 2024
1. Various of New Orleans Four Day ceremony
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Deidra Meredith, Multi-Media Activist, New Orleans Legacy Project:
"I call them America’s little soldier girls. They were civil rights pioneers at six years old. They were the ones that basically were the emissaries that held this country to the truths that were held into the constitution, that all men and women are created equal."
3. Wide of Gail Etienne dancing to band music
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gail Etienne, Civil Rights Activist, New Orleans Four:
"And I was wondering why they were so angry with me. You know, I hadn’t did anything. I was just going to school and I felt like if they could get to me they’d want to kill me and I definitely didn’t know why at six years old. What could I have done at six years old to make them want to get to me like that."
5. Various of bands, Etienne dancing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gail Etienne, Civil Rights Activist, New Orleans Four:
"They said that we rocked the nation for what we had done, you know. And I like hearing when they say that. I think, not I, we played a pivotal part in what happened and in desegregation and the older I get the more proud I am because you know for years nothing was said about us and now that it’s coming out you know, I’m excited. I want the whole story, the true story and I don’t want nobody to ever forget that it was four of us, not one."
7. Various of bands
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gail Etienne, Civil Rights Activist, New Orleans Four:
"We had to be separate you know. The separate signs for the whites and the blacks and the Negroes or whatever it was. We don’t want go back to any of that. That was a long time ago. We want to keep moving forward, progressing and we don’t want to go back to those days. And the young people when they say we don’t want to go back, they need to know what they don’t want to go back to because they weren’t here when all that happened."
9. Wide of band
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gail Etienne, Civil Rights Activist, New Orleans Four:
"It’s been 64 years. It’s been a long time coming and I’m really excited about it. I’m happy about all the people that want to participate. I’m glad for the people that’s coming out to support us."
11. Wide of civil rights elders watching bands go by
12. Various of Etienne and Dorotha Smith-Simmons dancing
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Doratha Smith-Simmons, Civil Rights Activist:
"Here in the city of New Orleans only Ruby bridges were celebrated. What about Tessie? What about Leona? What about Gail?"
14. Wide of brass band walking down Canal Street
STORYLINE:
A parade in downtown New Orleans marked the 64th anniversary of the day four Black 6-year-old girls integrated New Orleans schools.
The celebration was in stark contrast to the tensions and anger that roiled the city on Nov. 14, 1960.
Federal marshals were needed then to escort Tessie Prevost Williams, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Ruby Bridges to school while white mobs opposing desegregation shouted, cursed and threw rocks.
On Thursday, the sound of marching bands in the city’s Central Business District caught locals and tourists by surprise.
Workers and customers poured out of one local restaurant to see what was going on.
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