TIANANMEN, LEIPZIG, and SUNO in NEW ORLEANS

In the fall of 1968 there was a poetry contest at Southern U. in New Orleans.  This was a branch of the much larger Southern U. in Baton Rouge, which around this time was the largest Black university in the world.  Baton Rouge also was home to Louisiand State U., the traditional white state university, which had been built up in the 1920a and 30 by Gov. and then Senator Huey Long.  The Long family had flirted with the Socialist Party decades earlier, but generally, there was only one political party in Louisiana, the Democratic Party.  MORE TO COME