Report, Segregation in the Field of Public and Private Law [excerpt]
This is the only known copy of the legal analysis that was used to justify the desegregation of Tulane University. <br /><br />In 1959, Joseph M. Jones, president of the Tulane Board of Administrators, approached a Tulane law student, David Campbell, and asked him to research all aspects of desegregation as they applied to higher education. Campbell delivered his report on September 4, 1959. <br /><br />The sixty-page report covered a wide swath of research into desegregation law, including areas to which it applied (jury cases, housing, the right to vote, restrictive covenants, labor unions, etc.), the Fourteenth Amendment, whether Tulane University was a private or public corporation, and laws and cases pertaining to Tulane. Campbell went on to graduate first in his class from Tulane Law School and earn a doctorate in law from Oxford University.<br /><br />Read the entire report through the <a href="https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A83108" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Report, Segregation in the Field of Public and Private Law">Tulane University Digital Library</a>.
Campbell, David
<a href="http://archives.tulane.edu/repositories/3/resources/3261#summary" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Finding aid David Campbell papers">David Campbell papers</a>, Manuscripts Collection 1108, Box 9, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tiltion Memorial Library, Tulane University
1959 September 4
Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
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Charlene's [poster]
Advertisement for Charlene's bar. "New Orleans 1977 - 1999"<br /><br />Charlene Schneider was an early and vocal advocate for LGBTQ causes in the 1970s. The center of her world was Charlene's, the bar she ran at 940 Elysian Fields in New Orleans from 1977 until early 1999. It became world-famous not only because of Ms. Schneider's effusive personality but also because, in its early years, Charlene's represented something rare: a safe place for lesbians when attitudes toward them were less tolerant. Besides giving women a place where they could socialize and dance, Ms. Schneider had live music by female entertainers, including Melissa Etheridge. <br /><br />Ms. Schneider opened the bar after a series of odd jobs, including stints at Western Union and The Times-Picayune, where she was a hot-type operator. Along the way she had firsthand experience with discrimination. In the mid-1960s, after being arrested in a raid on a gay bar, Ms. Schneider lost her job as a cryptographer, as well as her security clearance with NASA at Michoud. As a result of her experiences, one of her causes was the anti-discrimination ordinance, which the New Orleans City Council passed in 1991. <br /><br />After closing her bar, Ms. Schneider and her companion, Linda Tucker, moved to Bay St. Louis, where she operated an establishment called On the Coast.<br /><br />Poster inscribed:<br />"To Jody & Marilyn<br />How can I tell the importance of your friendship. <br />Love<br />Charlene<br />99"
<p>Collection NA-201, Oversize Folder 1, <a href="http://archives.tulane.edu/repositories/9/resources/2847" target="_blank" title="Finding aid, Marilyn McConnell papers" rel="noreferrer noopener">Marilyn McConnell papers</a>, Newcomb Archives, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University</p>
1999
Tulane University
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Learn more: <br />Zarrelli, Natalie (2016). <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-lesbian-bars-of-new-orleans" target="_blank" title="The Lost Lesbian Bars of New Orleans" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Lost Lesbian Bars of New Orleans</a>. <em>Atlas Obscura </em>(September 14).
Jewish Children’s Home Tell-A-Vision
Details from a brochure, Jewish Children’s Home Tell-A-Vision, highlighting the founding of the Isidore Newman School for the children of the Jewish Children’s Home and of New Orleans. <br /><br />In the 1840s and 1850s a series of yellow fever epidemics in New Orleans brought forth a need for homes for destitute widows and children. During this period, private and religious groups established a number of orphanages and asylums. <br /><br />In 1855 the Jewish community of New Orleans organized the “Jewish Orphans’ Home,” as a part of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, and on March 14, 1855, the state granted a charter to the institution. The original Home was on Chippewah Street, but in 1887 it moved to a new building at 5342 St. Charles Avenue. <br /><br />The name of the organization has changed several times: from April 6, 1880 to February 28, 1905, it was “The Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows & Orphans,” from February 28, 1905, to February 4, 1924, “The Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows & Orphans of New Orleans,” and after February 4, 1924, the “Jewish Children’s Home.” While the legal name remains the Jewish Children’s Home, the organization has operated as the Jewish Children’s Home Service since April 1958.
<a href="https://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=25&q=&rootcontentid=1265#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Jewish Children's Home records, 1870-1981</a>, Collection 180, Box 35, Folder 3, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
1940
Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
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