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Marie Louise Snellings
Marie Louise Wilcox Snellings, one of the first women to earn a law degree from Tulane University, became a successful politician in northeastern Louisiana.
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Native American Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana
Following World War II, many Indigenous Louisianans joined regional and national efforts to promote tribal sovereignty, economic justice, and educational equality.
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New Orleans School Crisis
The integration of the Orleans Parish public schools in 1960 was the result of years of effort at the national, state, and local levels.
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Oretha Castle Haley
Oretha Castle Haley defied rigid southern gender and racial constructs to become one of Louisiana's leading civil rights, women's rights, and human rights activists.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
One of Louisiana’s most famous legal cases, Plessy v. Ferguson joins Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) as key rulings on the US civil rights timeline.
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Robert Mills Lusher
Confederate official and Reconstruction-era Superintendent of Education for the State of Louisiana
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Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges, one of four African American girls to integrate the New Orleans public school system in 1960, came to symbolize the innocence and bravery of the children involved in the effort.
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Slaughterhouse Case
The US Supreme Court ruling in the Slaughterhouse Case was the first interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment by the high court and resulted in diminished civil rights protection for citizens.
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