Bethlehem Baptist Church School

Church-run schools like this one filled a gap the parish left open, and a federal court later measured it. In 1967 it found the school board offered housing and study help to white teachers but not Black teachers, kept secretaries at white schools and none at Black ones, raised lunch from ten cents to a quarter, and refused buses to a Catholic mission school for Black children. The board had also turned down federal lunch and education aid.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 7.3 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Chalmette Battlefield — 9.1 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 9.6 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 11 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.

More markers nearby

• Mary Plantation — 0.5 mi
• Bellechasse Plantation — 2.9 mi
• Woodlawn High School and the Struggle for Racial Equality — 3.5 mi
• Fort St. Leon — 5.4 mi