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What Does It Mean to Go First?

  • Baton Rouge Gallery 1515 Dalrymple Drive BATON ROUGE United States (map)

Join us for a unique conversation with Freya Anderson Rivers. Rivers was the first Black woman to attend Baton Rouge’s Robert E. Lee High School (now Liberty High School) in 1963 and the first to attend Louisiana State University a year later. Joining Freya in conversation will be Dialogue on Race Louisiana’s Maxine Crump, who was the first Black woman to live on LSU’s campus, and Elvin “Tampoo” Dalcourt, the first person to swim in Brooks Park Pool.

This event is open to all at no cost.

Hear oral histories recorded with Freya Anderson Rivers (courtesy of LSU’s T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History)