Mural vandalized at civil rights center recently opened by women who desegregated NOLA schools [Video]

NOPD is searching for the person or persons responsible for vandalizing a newly painted mural at the Tate, Etienne, Prevost Center in the Lower 9th Ward. The center was started in 2021 by three of four women who helped to desegregate schools in New Orleans when they were only little girls. The vandalization happened two nights in a row by what appears to be the same man.Dr. Leona Tate, one of the New Orleans Four, said, “Why someone thought to write all over it already, I have no idea. It sends me the signal that either racism is still alive or someone has not been educated on what we do here.”The four girls were only 6 when they braved racism and abuse 64 years ago. It was at McDonogh 19 where Tate, Tessie Prevost and Gail Etienne started school in 1960. At the same time, Ruby Bridges started over at …