re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?

Reasons why my parents left and I did ask my parents.
My parents said the main reason was going to a place where we could get a better education.
They did look at some properties in Livingston Parish. At that time EBRP schools were a lot better.
1. Hollywood Elem was not a good public school and Red Oaks at that time being in a nicer part of Baton Rouge had a larger tax base. This gave them the ability to offer a better education than Hollywood which at that time African Americans started going there. The guidance counselor at Hollywood was suggesting to parents like mine that were concerned with their children's education to leave. You had African American kids coming into the school in the early 1970's and a new African American principal along with less funding than schools in better areas.

2. When the African Americsns moved in across the street the family was causing problems in the neighborhood. The mixture of the people being problems along with the time period 1960's/ 1970's was fuel on the fire. White people at that time did not feel secure living next to African Americans especially ones that caused problems.