Law Student (Algernon Cooper) and LDF Intern Speech at Notre Dame Law School on Black Studies Programs

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November 21, 1969

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Law Student (Algernon Cooper) and LDF Intern Speech at Notre Dame Law School on Black Studies Programs, 1969. 59b7e3de-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/201279c4-14c3-492f-85a5-00e0c8a17da9/law-student-algernon-cooper-and-ldf-intern-speech-at-notre-dame-law-school-on-black-studies-programs. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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encountering on edominately white campuses a 
on these campuses increases. 

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continued. "Black students should not forced to choos 
between no social 1 a i He should 
have a place wher ca can 
establish his own programs, where he can rap about bein 
in America, Black at Notre Dame--where he can learn to 
Black man and not a Black-Irish man. Whe his ea 
assaulted by the Temptations and not Tiny Tim." 

Mr. Cooper emphasized throughout his speech the ne 
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