 McDonough 19 was one of the schools that was selected in 1960 to integrate on November 14th. In 1960, I was one of the first six-year-old girls that entered into McDonough 19. It was three hours at this location. McDonough 19 had been vacant for a while. It closed in 2004. As a school, Hurricane Katrina came in 2005. And that did some damages to the building. And it was vacant until 2021 when we started the redevelopment. I was allowed to come back in the building just to see how it looked after Katrina. And I won't lie, it was a mess, but it looks repairable. The school board had placed a sign on it to either auction it or put it up for sale. That was kind of heartbreaking to me. I knew if it got into someone else's hand that didn't know the history of the building and telling what it would be. I went to the school board and gave them the history of the school building. And it was just amazing to me that nobody really knew the history here. It worked out to have the school board take the sign down and do a reassessment of that area. Had it placed on the historic registry so that it couldn't be torn down even before we even had psych control. I cannot explain to you or tell you how many people had told me that nothing was coming back to the Lord Night. Finally, I was introduced to a limbic community development. Ben Warnick and I met and he was the first person to tell me that my vision could be done. We had federal and state new market tax credits. We had historic state and federal historic tax credits. We had loans from the city. We had a loan from the state and a national CDFI. We also received major investments on national pop service and also from the save America's treasures. Once we started the development, it was a change of heart. I just want the story to be told and just to come in and tour the building just the way we entered and see the first grade classroom to get this history. Eventually, if this could be a part of the school board's curriculum for classes since it's not being taught in schools, that would be a lifelong dream and that would be my legacy.