“My mother applied to college in 1965,” Alena Allen said in an email to Law.com on Thursday. “She only applied to Southern in Baton Rouge” because “LSU admitted its first Black undergraduate in 1964 so my mom did not view attending LSU as a viable option.”
March 02, 2023 at 02:20 PM
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Alena Allen is set to return to her home state of Louisiana to become the first Black dean of the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
Less than two years ago, Allen resigned from the University of Memphis due to what she said was a pattern of Black candidates being bypassed for leadership roles, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
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Alena Allen. (Courtesy photo)
