The LSU Board of Supervisors unanimously approved requests Friday to name two schools and a building on the main campus after Black trailblazers at the university.
In the final session of student government on April 20, a bill urging the university to cut ties with all companies that benefit from abuses of both human rights and
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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was a landmark in civil rights history, as the court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine that had enabled racial segregation in public facilities for decades. Most notably, the Brown ruling ended the practice of racial segregation in public schools in law, at least, if not immediately in practice.
Some states followed the legal ruling and desegregated their public schools, but in others school administrators and government officials remained defiant. In one of the most renowned cases, James Meredith had to pursue a lawsuit against the state of Mississippi up to the Supreme Court in order to secure admission to the all-white University of Mississippi, while the state’s governor, Ross Barnett, refused to accept his enrollment. Likewise, in 1963 Georgia governor George Wallace famously blocked the doorway of the University of Alabama in a defiant attempt to prevent two Black stud