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Save Our Schools records

 Collection — Container: 1 folder
Identifier: 329
Scope and Contents The Save Our Schools records document the efforts by this organization, which was founded in April 1960 to maintain free public education in New Orleans during the integration of the public school system. The collection contains organizational records, as well as newspaper clippings and publications collected by SOS and its members. The bulk of the materials within the Save Our Schools collection spans the years 1957 to 1962, with correspondence dating from 1960 to 1962. The...
Dates: Created: 1957-1963; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1978

A.M. Trudeau Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2180
Scope and Contents The A. M. Trudeau, Jr. papers consist of two folders of correspondence and printed ephemera.  These pertain to the Supreme Court cases in which Trudeau was involved.  The correspondence consists largely of Trudeau’s outgoing carbons recommending local African American civil leaders to various posts.  Notable items include Trudeau’s letter to President Gerald Ford recommending  Revius O. Ortique, Jr. for the United States District Court and letters of recommendation for Clarence Barney of the...
Dates: Created: 1962-1975; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1982

Alan Wieder collection

 Collection
Identifier: 685
Scope and Contents Collection contains newspaper clippings (November 1960-January 1979) formerly housed in three scrapbooks documentating the desegregation of William Frantz and McDonogh 19 elementary schools in New Orleans by Ruby Bridges (Frantz) and Leona Tate, Tessie Prevost, and Gail Ettiene (McDonogh). Other materials include correspondence; office records of John A. Stewart, principal of McDonogh 19 when it was integrated; hand script notes by Betty Wisdom containing her reflections on the desegregation...
Dates: Created: 1960-1984; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1961; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2009

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Baker, Liva (Florence Olivia), 1930-2007 1