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Louisiana Considered: The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports, The Chicago Defender’s Louisiana Coverage

Louisiana Considered

English - June 28, 2021 21:53 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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Patrick Madden hosted this Monday’s episode of Louisiana Considered.

From the WWNO archives, NPR’s Throughline podcast producer and reporter Laine Kaplan-Levenson tells us the story of Louisiana’s first integrated high school sports competition. 
Author Ethan Michaeli discusses his recent article in the magazine 64 Parishes, Louisiana and the Defender, about how the Black-owned newspaper the Chicago Defender covered stories from Louisiana during the 20th century.

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