On November 14, 1960, U.S. marshals escorted four six-year-old Black girls across the thresholds of two White elementary schools in New Orleans. What happened next would shock the nation and shape a generation of children who followed them.
 
This interactive documentary tells the story of three of those girls—Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost—and the national drama that played out around them. It explores the different ways that White and Black reporters covered school integration. And it maps the relationship between schools, race, and money during America's “desegregation generation.” 

To begin the documentary, mouse over the first image