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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
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
The Nicholls, Douglass, Renaissance Bobcat Alumni Association (NDR Bobcat Alumni Association) was formed to: 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.
In 1940, a new public high school, Francis T. Nicholls High School, was opened at 3820 St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans. In the late 1990s the high school was renamed for former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. It is now a charter school, part of the KIPP Family
The building that once housed Francis T. Nicholls High School (later renamed Frederick Douglass High School) was severely damaged. In 2006, classmate Al Ohm returned to the old neighborhood and took a number of photographs.
Mar 11, 2019 · Although the school after 1939 was initially named after Nicholls, a confederate general, the name was then changed to Frederick Douglass High School in honor of the African-American abolitionist in the 1990s, after desegregation.
