Harold W. Stoke address, 1978.

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Harold W. Stoke address, 1978.

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Typescript of an address that Harold W. Stoke delivered to the Monday Club on November 27, 1978. In the address Stoke describes the regressive notions about race he encountered among colleagues and locals after relocating to Baton Rouge from New Hampshire; the tension-fraught beginnings of desegregation of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1950; several contentious meetings with the L.S.U. Board of Supervisors concerning desegregation; and Thurgood Marshall's role in the legal challenges to segregation at the university.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Stoke, Harold W. (Harold Walter), 1903-

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Harold Walter Stoke was born on May 1, 1903. Stoke served as President of UNH from 1944-1947. From the description of Presidential Papers, 1944-1947. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 27457783 Harold W. Stoke was president of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, La., from 1947-1951. From the description of Harold W. Stoke address, 1978. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 248567646 ...

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993

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Thurgood Marshall (b. July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – d. January 24, 1993, Washington, D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education, a 1954 decision that ruled t...

Monday Club (Baton Rouge, La.)

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