Prevost, Dorothy Mackey, 1931-

Dorothy Mackey Prevost is a New Orleans native and survivor of Hurricane Betsy. She lived in the Lower Ninth Ward her entire life, attended McCarty Elementary School and Booker T. Washington High School, and worked as a seamstress. She married Charles Prevost in 1953 and had two daughters, Tessie and Tory. Tessie was one of the first African-American students to integrate McDonogh 19 School in the 1960s.

From the description of Dorothy Mackey Prevost oral history interview, 2003. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 635195825