Black History Month: Formerly all-Black high schools have stories to share
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McKinley High School is listed as a national historic landmark as the first high school for African Americans in the state, but it certainly was not the only school for Black students.
Of the dozens of Black schools in all 64 parishes across the state, many people remember those schools and the stories behind them, and T.A. Levy High School in Rosedale was one of those schools.
“I graduated from Thomas A. Levy and two of my brothers. Maxine Crump did as well,” Thomas Levy.
Black History Month: Formerly all-Black high schools have stories to share
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Tuesday, February 23 2021
Feb 23, 2021
February 23, 2021 10:37 AM
February 23, 2021
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Source: WBRZ
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McKinley High School is listed as a national historic landmark as the first high school for African Americans in the state, but it certainly was not the only school for Black students.
Of the dozens of Black schools in all 64 parishes across the state, many people remember those schools and the stories behind them, and T.A. Levy High School in Rosedale was one of those schools.
“I graduated from Thomas A. Levy and two of my brothers. Maxine Crump did as well,” Thomas Levy.