Laverne Greene-Leech
Laverne Greene-Leech (June 25, 1948- ), is a civil rights pioneer, and one of three African-American students who desegregated Mississippi State College for Women, now Mississippi University for Women (MUW), in 1966, in Columbus, Mississippi.[20] [1] She, along with Barbara Turner Bankhead and Diane Hardy were the first black students enrolled at the college.[2] Greene-Leech entered the Mississippi State College for Women in 1966 as a freshman and had been a graduate of Hunt High School.[3] Greene-Leech and the other two women were accepted to the college, but were not allowed to live on campus.[3]
After being followed home by a strange man who sprayed her with water, Greene-Leech decided not to continue at the college and she moved onto another university.[3]
Her story is captured in the Those Who Dared anthology, and the Mississippi University for Women pioneers website, which includes photos and oral history accounts.
Laverne is now a curator of the R.E. Hunt Museum and Culture Center in Columbus, Mississippi.[4] In 2016, MUW awarded Green-Leech the university's Medal of Excellence.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "MUW honors university's first black students 50 years later".
- ↑ "Barbara Turner Bankhead and Laverne Greene Leech". Jackson Free Press. 19 September 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hervey, Ginger (18 June 2015). "MUW's Desegregation Focus of Project". The Dispatch. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ Bailey, Victoria (12 September 2016). "R.E. Hunt Museum and Cultural Center". WCBI. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ↑ Altman, Isabelle (16 September 2016). "MUW Honors University's First Black Students 50 Years Later". The Dispatch. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
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