School integration -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- Sources

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...