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Juanita Jackson Thibeaux s family shares memories following her death on Saturday
Juanita Jackson Thibeaux s family shares memories following her death on Saturday
and last updated 2021-02-24 23:19:17-05
LAFAYETTE â Juanita Jackson Thibeaux was a Civil Rights Activist and educator in Lafayette for many years before passing away at the age of eighty-six on Saturday.
in 1954, Thibeaux was one of the eighty African American students to desegregate the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, guiding the way for her cousin, Georgia Syrie to follow her footsteps.
Syrie tells us that she started school a year after Thibeaux, and that her older cousin s perseverance and drive encouraged her to get the same education despite the challenges they both faced while in school.
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