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Feb 3, 2023 · Founded in 1940, Francis T. Nicholls Senior High School — now Frederick A. Douglass Senior High School — had a long history of venerating the Confederacy. The school was named for Francis T. Nicholls, a Confederate general who became the governor of Louisiana and a Louisiana Supreme Court justice.
Apr 13, 2016 · Amid mass charter school development and the School Facilities Master Plan aimed at reconstructing the city’s education landscape, Douglass remained one of the only open access public high schools in the historic Upper 9th Ward.
- Kristen L. Buras
- 2015
Sep 21, 2008 · Difficult integration. Douglass has long been a microcosm of broader changes and tensions in the city and school district. Built in the 1930s as a school for white students only, Douglass...
Building Renaissance is a 4-minute documentary on the 7000+ hours that went into preparing the Frederick Douglass High School building, formerly Francis T. Nicholls…
- 4 min
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- KippRenaissance
- On Rewriting The Narrative About New Orleans Schools Before Hurricane Katrina
- On Sending Her Son to Frederick A. Douglass High School
- On Supporting Students Through The Trauma of Racial Violence
“What so many people were saying when we came back from Katrina was that ‘schools were so terrible before’ or that ‘schools are so great now,’ neither of which were entirely true. […] There are a lot of people […] so many, I think, great New Orleanians, who are produced by those systems and who are erased when we just say, ‘oh, this school was bad,...
“The minute I stepped foot into Renaissance, when Coltrane, my oldest—who is going to be a senior—was a fifth grader KIPP Believe, I knew that it was really important to make sure that the school that I helped to create in that four year window before he had to go to high school was one that I would be really proud to send him. […] And so if there’...
“You can’t watch what’s happening without some level of personal trauma. Watching Breonna Taylors’ murderers still not face justice […] and knowing that the Casual Killing Act of 1669 is the policy that precedes all this and that it is still, in so many ways, alive and well in our country—it is a challenge. As a Black woman leader, it’s impossible ...
To serve and promote the educational interests of the former Francis T. Nicholls, Frederick A Douglass and KIPP Renaissance Senior High Schools in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. To serve as a forum for alumni to maintain contact with the school and one another.
Label. Description. Also known as. English. Frederick Douglass High School, Francis T. Nicholls High School. public charter high school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
