First students to integrate East Baton Rouge Parish schools discuss experience decades later

Baton Rouge – Some of the first students to integrate the East Baton Rouge Parish School System spoke on a panel at LSU Law Center on Tuesday evening.

“It really was a living nightmare,” Dr. Freya Anderson-Rivers said.

Anderson-Rivers attended Southern Lab School, but during her senior year, she went to what was, at the time, Lee High School. The school has since been renamed Liberty High School…

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