58 Years Later, LSU's First Black Undergraduate Receives Honorary Degree
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Posted 07.23.2011
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More than a half-century ago, Alexander P. Tureaud Jr. became the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University until students, teachers, the administration and the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals forced him out before he could finish his first semester.
