Abstract
This article constructs a local history of resistance to school desegregation in St. Bernard Parish, a predominantly White community in the metropolitan area of New Orleans, Louisiana. Within the scholarly framework of massive resistance, St. Bernard Parish beckons consideration today for its elaborate public school gender-separation scheme, which began in 1966 and lasted for 23 years until the threat of impending civil suits finally ended the practice in 1989. Although St. Bernard’s resistance strategy arguably saved the community’s public school system in the face of White frustration and fear of integration, tension and a perpetual sense of crisis for neighboring communities in the metropolitan area remain modern legacies of this resistance.
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