Secrets in the Stacks
Secrets in the Stacks interviews the individual researchers who frequent the Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSU-Shreveport and explores their work in regional history.
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Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
In this debut episode, Archivist Laura McLemore, interviews Scott Weightman, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leicester. In August of 2018, he was a guest on behalf of the LSUS Foundation and the Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. His research details white resistance of the 1950’s and 60’s in response to Brown v. Board of Education and the strategic use of media in influencing national politics and the rift when states’ rights became overt racism.