Scope and Contents The Gene L. Usdin collection contains documents related to the debate regarding public school integration in New Orleans in 1960. It contains a 2 February 1961 letter to Usdin from U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright regarding a school board dinner. In it, Wright writes in part: "Unquestionably, you made a great contribution toward the eventual settlement of this very difficult problem. The dinner was the first time, to my knowledge, when the moderates in this city have spoken above a...