Civil rights activist Dorotha Dodie Smith-Simmons celebrates the sixty-four year anniversary of the New Orleans Four desegregating schools, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

Civil rights activists, from left to right, Gail Etienne, Dorothy Prevost and Dorotha Dodie Smith-Simmons watch marching bands pass by to celebrate the sixty-four-year anniversary of the New Orleans Four desegregating schools Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)