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Student Activism in the Age of Jim Crow

February 12–February 12 • A talk by the Rev. Bentley Anderson, S.J.

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Add to Calendar 2020-02-12 17:00:00 2020-02-12 18:01:00 Student Activism in the Age of Jim Crow Historian Father Bentley Anderson, S.J., a former Loyola Trustee and author of Black, White and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1948-1956 will speak to the Loyola community and guests about a complicated time in university history. Fr. Anderson will start by describing a 1948 meeting between Archbishop Rummell and local college students to discuss desegregating New Orleans’ Catholic colleges, and the years of work it would take to achieve. Xavier University President Emeritus Norman Francis, U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle and Edgar Chase, III, three of our earliest African-American students and among our most distinguished alumni, will join Fr. Anderson in a panel discussion after his lecture. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Edwin A. Lombard will lead the panel discussion. The event will take place in Roussel Hall., located on the third floor of the Communications and Music complex. Free parking is available in West Road garage. For more information, contact: Patricia Murret, Associate Director of Public Affairs. 504-861-5448 America/Chicago public

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The event will take place in Roussel Hall., located on the third floor of the Communications and Music complex. Free parking is available in West Road garage.

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Historian Father Bentley Anderson, S.J., a former Loyola Trustee and author of Black, White and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1948-1956 will speak to the Loyola community and guests about a complicated time in university history. Fr. Anderson will start by describing a 1948 meeting between Archbishop Rummell and local college students to discuss desegregating New Orleans’ Catholic colleges, and the years of work it would take to achieve. Xavier University President Emeritus Norman Francis, U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle and Edgar Chase, III, three of our earliest African-American students and among our most distinguished alumni, will join Fr. Anderson in a panel discussion after his lecture. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Edwin A. Lombard will lead the panel discussion.

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Add to Calendar 2020-02-12 17:00:00 2020-02-12 18:01:00 Student Activism in the Age of Jim Crow Historian Father Bentley Anderson, S.J., a former Loyola Trustee and author of Black, White and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1948-1956 will speak to the Loyola community and guests about a complicated time in university history. Fr. Anderson will start by describing a 1948 meeting between Archbishop Rummell and local college students to discuss desegregating New Orleans’ Catholic colleges, and the years of work it would take to achieve. Xavier University President Emeritus Norman Francis, U.S. District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle and Edgar Chase, III, three of our earliest African-American students and among our most distinguished alumni, will join Fr. Anderson in a panel discussion after his lecture. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Edwin A. Lombard will lead the panel discussion. The event will take place in Roussel Hall., located on the third floor of the Communications and Music complex. Free parking is available in West Road garage. For more information, contact: Patricia Murret, Associate Director of Public Affairs. 504-861-5448 America/Chicago public

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