Southern University Law Center
 Southern University Law Center a campus of the Southern University System opened for instruction in September 1947. Its concept was born out of a response of a lawsuit by an African American resident Charles J. Hatfield III seeking to attend law school at a state institution. On December 16 1946 Louisiana State Board of Education took steps to establish a Law School for blacks at Southern University to be in operation for the 1947-1948 session.