Scope and Contents This collection is the result of a project sponsored by the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) and funded by the Louisiana Council for the Humanities and the Acadiana Committee in Human Relations. The project directors were Drs. Patricia Rickels and Matthew Schott with assistance from Barry Ancelet, Elemore Morgan, Jr., and Doris White. The collection contains taped interviews with several participants in Louisiana's civil rights movement. The...

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of federal cases mainly from Louisiana. Many of the cases deal with school desegregation. There are also cases from other states as well. Also included are correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, and court orders. This collection is arranged alphabetically by parish within Louisiana, and then by other state.