Collection: Carmen Morial collection | Amistad Research Center

Content Description

This collection consists of a booklet, "Facts and Finances, New Orleans Public Schools 1959-1960," which provides salary, enrollment, staff, demographic, and other statistical information the year before New Orleans Public Schools were desegregated. The collection also includes a 1948 photograph of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, the first African American to apply to and enroll in the University of Oklahoma Law School, with Dean of Admissions J. E. Fellows, Amos T. Hall of the Tulsa NAACP, and Thurgood Marshall. A final photograph is a portrait by Bradford Bachrach of Willa B. Player, former President of Bennett College.