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No one was ever charged in connection with the incident, which left freshmen Denver Smith and Leonard Brown dead from shotgun wounds. The deaths have haunted Pratt ever since. He recalls the date of the shootings almost as easily as his birthday or wedding anniversary.
Feb 18, 2018 · The bodies of Denver Smith and Leonard Brown lay outside the Southern University Administration Building on Nov. 16, 1972. The students were killed during a confrontation with law enforcement ...
Nov 16, 1972 · Leonard Brown was a 20-year-old student at Southern University, a historically Black university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1972, students at Southern, then the largest public Black college in ...
Nov 16, 2023 · A still-unidentified officer shot and killed two 20-year-old students, Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, who weren’t among the protesters. No one was ever prosecuted in their slayings. They have since been awarded posthumous degrees, and the university’s Smith-Brown Memorial Union bears their names. Stanley Nelson’s documentary, “Tell ...
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Nov 17, 2022 · Governor John Bel Edwards signed a formal letter of apology to the families of Leonard Brown and Denver Smith, two Southern University students who lost their lives in an unjust incident that ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Leonard Brown and Denver Smith were shot and killed during a peaceful protest on Southern’s campus in 1972. Fifty years later, current students, faculty, and former students walk hand in hand ...
The Southern University System’s decision to honor Leonard Brown and Denver Smith comes as Baton Rouge residents await the outcome of a federal investigation of the fatal, officer-involved shooting of 37-year-old Alton Sterling on July 5, 2015, which led to a series of major protests in Baton Rouge and across the nation and the fatal shooting ...
