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Civil Rights Activist and UNO Historian Raphael Cassimere Jr. ‘I Was Able to Change Minds’
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Raphael Cassimere Jr., University of New Orleans professor emeritus of history, who made his mark on the political landscape of New Orleans by helping lead boycotts as president of the NAACP Youth Council during the civil rights movement in the early 60s and 70s, did not set out to make history.
In fact, he hadn’t even planned to major in history, he told an audience at UNO on Wednesday.
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