LSUNO Library
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Eventually, hostilities decreased and students settled into relatively peaceful campus life, as seen in this early photo snapped outside of the school's library. African American alumnus Raphael Cassimere said that by the time he entered LSUNO in 1959, most of the white students were simply "indifferent" to the black students, and that there were even some who made overtures of friendship.
UNO Special Collections
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Integrating UNO: Legal and Political Actions
Ironically, for Joseph Narcisse (one of the 55 black students to first integrate LSUNO in1958) becoming part of history started right after his graduation from St. Augustine High School, when he…