Louisiana Learning: History and Education from within a black neighborhood in Shreveport

Louisiana Learning: History and Education from within a black neighborhood in Shreveport

Jolivette Anderson-Douoning, the Saint Michael’s College inaugural Edmundite Fellow, will present “Louisiana Learning: History and education from within a segregated black neighborhood in Shreveport,” on Thursday, April 13th, from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. in the McCarthy Recital Hall.

This public lecture teaches the history of a segregated schooling from within a Black neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana – the Hollywood Neighborhood. The national history of the United States does not often take into account the many local people who lived and worked in the neighborhoods designated to be segregated from White neighborhoods. It is because of segregated neighborhoods that segregated schools existed. Through the use of oral histories and primary documents written or saved by Black women in the Hollywood neighborhood between 1944 and 1960, a micro history of Black life and culture emerges that includes the African American pursuits for upward mobility through education after World War II, the Second Reconstruction.

This lecture is  part of the Norbert A. Kuntz Memorial Lecture Series sponsored by the Saint Michael’s History Department.

To join the live webinar, click the link below:

https://smcvt.zoom.us/j/93397535782?pwd=RTYyQlpkRE9OODBjcUFqQThyVG5mQT09
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