Question for those Louisiana natives over 35...

Don't really remember my parents talking about it. School discussed it generally (the South, not LA).

shite, much of it was effectively in place when I was in school.

It was covered in 8th grade La History

The schools hadn't been integrated when I was in the pubic school system. Some places still had segregation signage on their doors of them.

We were segregated until I was in the 11th grade. I remember singing Dixie at some big school functions. I do remember Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, blacks in the balcony and some things like that.

I have some first hand experience with it. I went to segregated schools until third grade, and I dimly remember separate accomodations for whites and blacks-separate waiting rooms in Dr. Offices, that sort of thing.After all that went away, no one talked about it, particularly in the schools. There was no teaching about it. Zero.

My parents raised me right, though, so I learned about it at home.

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What (if anything) did your parents and/or schools teach you about Jim Crow in Louisiana?

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My dad had a full service garage and wrecker service - we lived in S/E Louisiana - the timber industry and farming/dairy was about all the folks had for work back in the late 50's to early 60's. My father would carry customers on credit and they would pay when the saw mills, milk processing plants and crops came in. Most of the pulp wood was done by the black folk (pulp wood was the scrap limbs from the logging) - my dad carried these folks on credit also - the klan found out and threaten to burn his business down - that is when I learned about about Jim Crow in Louisiana - the threats didn't phase him -he was a WWII wounded Marine vet and that had given him a slight edge against threats and he had two brothers that worked with him. When he passed away in the mid 70's - there was quiet a few black folks at his funeral.

I was taught the truth by my parents and in school.

I'm closer to your cutoff of 35, but I would say that Black history dominated my social studies curriculum.

For example not having ever read anything else, I would say.

Crispus Attacus is the only martyr of the Boston Massacre.

Booker T Washington is the greatest American inventor after Thomas Edison

P.B.S. Pinchback is the only 19th century Louisiana governor that would come to mind.

Plessy vs Ferguson and Topeka vs Board of Education are the only Supreme Court decisions ever taught. Maybe Dred Scott was mentioned.

Mississippi Burning and Glory were some of the few movies shown in history class

And we eat King Cake in New Orleans to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.