Straight University

ID: 6467 ~ Source: “Leaflet for Straight University, 1884-85 school year,” 1884-1885, Straight University and Professor H.H. Swain Collection, MSS 908, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/MSS%20908.1.22.2/leaflet-for-straight-university%2C-1884-85-school-year.

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Rodolphe Desdunes attended Straight University where he studied law. Other members of the Comité, such as Louis Martinet, also attended Straight. Their legal education here helped formulate the Plessy v. Ferguson case.

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Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

By Connie Dorsey Abdul-Salaam and Jason Van, edited by Jessica Dauterive and Lauren Smith

Born in New Orleans in 1849, Rodolphe Desdunes actively participated in the city’s Creole social and political scene, eventually co-founding the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens’ Committee) in 1891. As the son of Pierre Feremie Desdunes, of Haitian…