Background
Larry Bagneris is the son of Gloria Diaz Bagneris and Lawrence Bagneris, Senior, whom ultimately had four children.
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Career
Larry"s career has focused on improving government relations with the African American and LGBT communities. Larry currently serves, since 1999, as the Executive Director of the City of New Orleans Human Relations Commission. Larry"s brother is notable actor, playwright, and musician Vernel Bagneris.
Larry"s father was a postal clerk and World World War II Veteran.
He was described as a playful and cheerful manitoba Larry"s mother was a strongly dedicated mother and manager of the Bagneris house.
Vernel described his mother as a "woman who quietly outclassed most people."
Larry and his family initially resided in the Creole Seventh Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. Due to a United States. Federal program of "Urban Renewal" of the 1960s, the Bagneris Family relocated to the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans.
The move came after the family experienced the detrimental impacts of unchecked legislative initiatives that adversely impacted neighborhoods of color.
The program was referred to as "The Negro Removal," which saw the creation of a highway overpass through the community that invited crime and drove down the spirits of property of the once vibrant Seventh Ward. Saint Augustine High School is an iconic New Orleans parochial school for boys that was founded with the intention of providing the segregated black-male students of New Orleans with a better education than that which was then poorly provided by the New Orleans Public Schools. lieutenant was at Saint Augustine that Larry began to realize that he could have a voice in transforming the segregated culture.
Larry"s first involvement in racial activism was at the age of 16.
He participated in picketing Maison Blanche Department Stores in New Orleans for their usage of Jim Crowe style policies. The pickets that Larry participated eventually led to more involved practices such as sit-insurance
Larry participated in these events which eventually led his arrest when sat-in at locations such at FrosTop, Walgreens and Woolworth"son Because Larry was only sixteen when these events occurred, he was only held as a juvenile.
While in high school, Larry participated in the 1963 Nation Conference for International Justice in Memphis, Tennessee with faculty and students from Saint Augustine High School.
