Celebrate Black History Month with BLSA

The History of Race in New Orleans

Thanks to everyone who came out last night to the talk by Professor Tania Tetlow. The event was a great success! Special thanks to the 1L class and 1L Rep. Anthony Williams for coordinating the event.

German Coast Slave Uprising Trials: Revisited

February 17, 2011 at 5:30pm, Judge Lemelle’s Courtroom

600 Poydras Street

The event is co-hosted by Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, 40th JDC Bar Association, A.P. Tureaud Inn of Court, Louisiana Association of Black Women Attorneys, and Tulane Black Law Students Association to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Largest Slave Revolt in American history that occurred In the Territory of Orleans. The organizations are coordinating oral arguments by some of the State’s finest attorneys and judges. The attorneys are arguing a Motion for New Trial for the convicted and executed slaves. Issues will raise several Constitutional issues, including due process as well as the Sixth and Eighth Amendments.

This is the second part of the commemoration, which we hosted at TLS on January 11. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about Louisiana history, but also to see some of the state’s leading attorneys and judges in action.

The People of Clarendon County – February 23 at 7pm

Come support BLSA’s final act in Black History Month, a performance of The People of Clarendon County. The People of Clarendon County depicts the rural community in South Carolina, which served as the battleground of black sharecroppers, domestic workers, laborers and clergymen who joined the NAACP to fight for better schools for black children with their 1951 lawsuit, Briggs v. Elliott. Theirs was the first of five cases that led to the breakthrough 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed segregation.