In the fall of 1972, a palpable tension hung over the campus of Southern University, a historically Black university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Students, growing increasingly frustrated with inadequate funding and substandard facilities compared to the nearby predominantly white Louisiana State University, had been organizing protests and class boycotts. Among the student body was Denver Smith, a 20-year-old male, who, on the morning of November 16, 1972, would find himself in the midst of a tra
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