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GUILLORY v. ADMINISTRATORS OF TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LA.

Civ. A. No. 11484-B.

203 F.Supp. 855 (1962)

Barbara Marie GUILLORY and Pearlie Hardin Elloie, Plaintiffs, v. The ADMINISTRATORS OF the TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, and Herbert E. Longenecker, President of Tulane University of Louisiana, and The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

March 28, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pilie, Nelson & Limes, John P. Nelson, Jr., Katherine S. Wright, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Guste, Barnett & Little, John Pat Little, Wood Brown, III, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

The Tulane University of Louisiana, which now1 regards itself as a "private" institution, refuses to admit qualified Negro applicants solely because of their race. A special Louisiana statute, Act 43 of 1884, LSA-R.S. Tit. 17, c. 6 note, enshrined in the state constitution, La.Const.1921, Art. 12, § 24, LSA,2 apparently requires...

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