Jefferson Parish Schools Target Repairs as Part of Desegregation Effort. NOLA.com. Teachers also. Members of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) and others in New Orleans participated in sit-ins at several prominent segregated lunch counters, including Woolworth and McCrorys. Letlow, Luke J. In addition to the work they did in CORE to fight public discrimination laws, they also focused their energy where they spent most of their time: schools. 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. Some Black people, born free or enslaved, were able to prosper economically in the nineteenth century. In 1994, sixth graders at Charles Gayerre school successfully petitioned to have the schools name changed to Oretha Castle Haley. [CDATA[/* >
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