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<item>ibe34</item>
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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>Civil rights movements--Louisiana</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--Segregation--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Lee High School (Baton Rouge, La.)--Students</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights workers--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--Education--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Discrimination in education--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Black power--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African American clergy--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Baton Rouge (La.)--Race relations</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Sit-ins--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Student movements--Louisiana--Baton Rouge</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>Hamilton, Leo C., 1951-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>Leo C. Hamilton, a LSU Alumni and Baton Rouge attorney, discusses his family background in Baton Rouge, La; parents attend McKinley High School; importance of education to parents; father&apos;s involvement in civil rights movement; Baton Rouge civil rights leaders; worked odd jobs as teenager; attended segregated elementary and junior high schools; enrolled in desegregated Lee High; isolated from black community because attended Lee High; abused by white students at Lee High; ten year class reunion and changed attitudes of white students; camaraderie among black students at Lee High; discrimination in grading; teachers ignored abuse; decision to pursue career in law; guidance counselors at Lee High; rivalry between black neighborhoods; reasons for not attending Southern; white students at LSU; camaraderie among black students at LSU; meekness of Martin Luther King Action Movement; some believed no place for whites in the movement; lack of radicalism at LSU; Black Power in Baton Rouge; H. Rap Brown; fear by some blacks that integration would hurt black community; attempts by black ministers to control movement; organization and goals of Harambe; racism of white fraternities; Chancellor Cecil Taylor; sit-in in Taylor&apos;s office; Dean James Reddoch; disagreements between black students; members of Harambe; Black Cultural Center versus Black Student Union.</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,34</dc_identifier>
<dc_relation>Forms part of the online collection, Integration and the Black Experience at LSU.</dc_relation>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1993-09-11</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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