On March 31, 1960, eighteen students were suspended by Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after organizing a boycott of classes in protest of segregation and the administration’s inaction on civil rights. The student rebellion escalated as hundreds joined in requesting withdrawal slips, demanding institutional change. The movement abruptly ended after the sudden death of a professor from a heart attack, bringing national attention to the tension and pressures facing both students and faculty during the Civil Rights Movement.
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