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Jul 30, 2021 · The Orleans Parish School Board unanimously approved changing the name of Martin Luther King Jr. School to Dr. Alfred Lawless, Jr. School at its Thursday night meeting, restoring the Lower 9th Ward school’s former namesake, prior to its 2015 renaming.
Jul 28, 2021 · After more than a year of virtual meetings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Orleans Parish School Board members on Tuesday held their first in-person committee meeting since March 2020. They were met with a socially distanced — but filled to capacity — room of Alfred Lawless High School alumni.
Mar 6, 2022 · Alfred Lawless, a prominent educator, had helped to raise money in the early 1900s for the landmark Valena C. Jones Elementary School to be constructed in the 7th Ward, where there had been no...
Jul 29, 2021 · But several Lawless alumni said Lawless, who had served as principal of the historic Fisk Colored School in New Orleans, was an integral component of local African-American history.
After months of public input, hundreds of name considerations, and historical research, the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) unanimously voted and approved NOLA Public Schools (NOLA-PS) Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis, Jr.’s list of recommendations for the renaming of several public school buildings. Dr.
May 26, 2021 · A NOLA Public Schools committee has chosen finalists for 21 public schools slated to get new names because they currently honor former slaveowners, White supremacists or Confederate figures.
Alfred Lawless High School was a public high school and junior high school in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. History. As a part of the New Orleans Public Schools, Lawless opened its doors to African American students on January 27, 1964, as historically the first high school in the Lower Ninth Ward.
