Interior photographs of Leland University in the 1870s.

ID: 4528 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Louisana Research Collection, Tulane University.
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By Jazmia Henry
Founded in 1870, Leland University was created with the purpose of educating free black people living in Southern Louisiana. Originally meant to educate only freemen (black people that were free prior…