Commemorating the Anniversary of Desegregation and the New Orleans & Louisiana Resistance Movement

Celebration - Tribute 3 Part Series  | 45 min Episodes  |  HD

Logline: Sunni Patterson hosts The New Orleans Legacy Project docuseries to honor and celebrate four little soldier girls and the powerful freedom fighters of the New Orleans & Louisiana Resistance Movement who moved before them and with them.

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Synopsis: The New Orleans Four (Leona Tate, Ruby Bridges, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost) are the 6-year-old little soldier girls who became the LEGACY of the New Orleans & Louisiana Resistance Movement. As a part of the Anniversary of Desegregation, this docuseries tribute and celebration tells the story of the movement and how they became the youngest emissaries to execute desegregating schools in New Orleans. 

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On November 14, 1960, they became the first African American girls to defy the Jim Crow law of the land in the Deep South when they took those tiny giant steps to integrate white only public elementary schools. They rocked the nation and moved the world and brought it home for the first Freedom Rider Homer Plessy.