Exchange Place: How A Small Struggling School Transformed Civil Rights in New Orleans and the Nation explicit
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Exchange Place, is the story of a school whose mission was to train mostly African American women the skills they needed to integrate the secretarial offices of the Deep South between 1965 and ‘72. Those offices were not just segregated,for the most part they were completely off limits to women of color. And many were fighting to insure the workplace would stay that way for years or decades tocome! Over the course of the school’s history, it was shut down multiple times and constantly under duress from forces conspiring to defeat it. But, it survived tobecame one of the most successful programs of its kind in the War On Poverty, lauded on the front pages of national newspapers like The Wall Street Journal andthe subject of an Emmy Award winning documentary in 1968 entitled,appropriately, "The School That Would Not Die". The first season of the podcast tellsthe inspirational biographies of four of the school’s graduates who changed themoral skyline of their city -- how they did it -- and how the school’s teachers andsupporters struggled to overcome the massive forces arrayed against them.
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