Event Recaps
Education and Preservation to Heal Communities
Dr. Leona Tate, member of “The McDonogh Three,” discusses the roll of preservation in communities with Molly Baker, the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s HOPE Crew.
Schooling in the Antebellum South
Dr. Sarah Hyde, author of Schooling in the Antebellum South, explored private and public education systems before the Civil War in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
The Legacy of African American Students and the Desegregation of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Ruth Foote discussed the 76 black students who integrated the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in July 1954.