Press Coverage - XULA Investigative Stories Program

Archival

PRESS COVERAGE

In a series of interactive pieces, we'll examine archival TV and newspaper coverage of the school integration story in New Orleans.

We'll also interview distinguished journalists about how this story shaped their own careers as well as the news outlets they worked for.

Source: University of Georgia, Walter J. Brown Media Archives

Among the topics we'll cover:

How New Orleans TV stations WVUE, WWL, and WDSU reported this story, how that figured into the city's culture of investigative journalism, and how local news outlets report on race and education today.
How the national news media influenced—and was influenced by—America’s reaction to the New Orleans school crisis of 1960.
How The Louisiana Weekly, one of the nation’s oldest Black newspapers, covered school integration, and the importance of The Weekly both in New Orleans and nationally.
When New Orleans’s newspaper of record, The Times-Picayune, stopped arguing for forced racial segregation in schools, and why.
Why news outlets across the country ceased covering the school integration story, even as American school systems once again became segregated and inequitable.