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<dc_title>Oral history interview, 1993</dc_title>
<dc_creator>Hamilton, Leo C., 1951-</dc_creator>
<dc_creator>Hebert, May</dc_creator>
<dc_subject>African American college students--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Lee High School (Baton Rouge, La.)--Students</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights movements--Louisiana</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Student movements--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Baton Rouge (La.)--Race relations</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--Segregation--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Discrimination in education--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Sit-ins--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>McKinley High School (Baton Rouge, La.)</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>Hamilton, Leo C., 1951-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Reddoch, James Wilson, 1924-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Taylor, Cecil G., 1909-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>Leo C. Hamilton, a LSU Alumni and Baton Rouge attorney, discusses the social nature of Harambe; use of St. Albans and Methodist Center for meetings; activist ministers; fight against white fraternities reserving seats at football games; urging university to recruit black athletes; racism of Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp; African American students felt like outsiders; sit-in in Chancellors office in 1971; Dean James Reddoch; integrated student housing; black cultural awareness; Southern students&apos; animosity for LSU; Southern University; Southern Riots; division within Harambe over how to protest riot; Ted Schirmer and Progressive Students&apos; Alliance; March to state capitol after Southern riots; Black Muslims; Harambe&apos;s community outreach program; racism of Baton Rouge and Campus Police; political activism of Harambe; David Duke; SGA president Kerry Pourciau and problems getting Harambe&apos;s support; death of Harambe; race relations at LSU in the 1990s; working for state government; specialty labor law; establishing own firm; merger with Breazeale, Sachse, and Wilson; law school professors.</dc_description>
<dc_description>Interviewed by May Hebert, August 21, 1993, Hill Memorial Library, LSU Campus, Baton Rouge, La.</dc_description>
<dc_description>The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.</dc_description>
<dc_publisher>Baton Rouge, La. : LOUISiana Digital Library</dc_publisher>
<dc_contributor>T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Integration and the Black Experience at LSU Collection (Louisiana State University)</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>LSU Libraries. Special Collections Dept.</dc_contributor>
<dc_language>en</dc_language>
<dc_type>Oral histories</dc_type>
<dc_type>Sound recordings</dc_type>
<dc_type>Transcripts</dc_type>
<dc_identifier>http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/IBE,33</dc_identifier>
<dc_relation>Forms part of the online collection, Integration and the Black Experience at LSU.</dc_relation>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1993-08-21</dc_coverage_temporal>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Baton Rouge (La.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_coverage_spatial>East Baton Rouge Parish (La.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_rights>Physical rights are retained by the LSU Libraries. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.</dc_rights>
<upd>20090526 204835</upd>
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