Police brutality -- Louisiana
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John E. Rousseau collection
Collection
Identifier: 319
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials collected by John E. Rousseau, editor of the Louisiana edition of the Pittsburgh Courier, relating to the case of Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret, two African American men wrongfully convicted by an all-White jury for the 1950 rape of a White woman in New Orleans. Sentenced to the death penalty in 1953, Labat and Poret won nine stays of execution, ultimately becoming the longest-serving death row inmates in Louisiana...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1967; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Llewelyn Soniat papers
Collection
Identifier: 696
Content Description
The Llewelyn J. Soniat papers encompass 9.8 linear feet of documentation for his tenure with the NAACP New Orleans Branch Executive Committee (1958-circa 1994), the New Orleans NAACP Youth Council (1961-1989), and work as a volunteer for various political campaigns in Louisiana, including the campaigns of Ernest “Dutch” Morial and Marc H. Morial. Soniat’s documentation for his work with the NAACP include correspondence, committee minutes, resolutions, reports and collected news clippings, as...
Dates:
Other: 1942-2009, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center