New Orleans Civil Rights matriarch Dorothy Prevost dies at 94

The last living parent of one of the four girls who desegregated New Orleans public schools has passed away.

Dorothy Prevost was the mother of the late Tessie Prevost, one of the New Orleans Four, the brave 6-year-old girls who desegregated New Orleans schools in 1960.

Prevost made the courageous decision to send her daughter into a hostile environment, confronting segregation head-on and changing the lives of future generations…

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