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| DESEGREGATION SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE OF EVENTS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| A symposium commemorating the desegregation of Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now UL Lafayette) in 1954 will be held on Sept. 10 and 11. The enrollment of 80 African-American students at SLI in the fall of 1954 marked the earliest large-scale desegregation of a Deep South public institution of higher education. The symposium combines academic and public discussions of desegregation and the civil rights movement in Louisiana. Schedule of events: Friday, Sept. 10: • 9:30 am. to 11 a.m.: “Effects of the Civil Rights Era on Higher Education” Moderator: Gordon Harvey, UL Monroe Panelists: Amy Thompson McCandless, College of Charleston; Clarence Mohr, University of South Alabama; and Melissa Kean, Rice University Location: Abdalla Hall auditorium in University Research Park • 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.: “SLI during the Era of Integration” Moderator: James Wilson, UL Lafayette Panelist: Michael Wade, Appalachian State University Commentator: Leonard Moore, Louisiana State University Location: Hamilton Hall auditorium • 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: “Religion, Politics and the Law during the Era of Integration” Moderator: Tiwanna Simpson, LSU Panelists: Andre Moore, Saint Anselem College; Glen Jeansonne, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and John V. White, LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center Location: Hamilton Hall auditorium Saturday, Sept. 11: • 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.: “Louisiana and the Civil Rights Revolution” Moderator: Kevin Fontenot, Tulane University Panelists: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois-Chicago; Greta de Jong, University of Nevada-Reno; and Anthony Badger, Cambridge University Location: Lafayette Public Library, Clifton Chenier Branch • 10:45 a.m. to noon: “Reflections and Remembrances of the Civil Rights Movement in Lafayette” Panelists: Patricia Rickels, Joe Dennis, Marion Overton White and Shawn Wilson Location: Lafayette Public Library, Clifton Chenier Branch For more information, call the UL Lafayette History and Geography Department at (337) 482-6900 or e-mail Dr. Michael Martin at msm6506@louisiana.edu |
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Document last revised Monday, August 1, 2005 1:36 PM
© Copyright 2003 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Public Relations and News Services · Martin Hall Room 319
Post Office Box 41009, Lafayette LA 70504-1009, USA
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