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Revisionist History

Project Dillard

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.861.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A historically Black university in New Orleans is beloved by everyone – except the US News best colleges rankings. We hack our way back into the algorithm and show how Dillard University can rise to the top. Part two of a two-part series.

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0:00.0

In New Orleans, a few miles from the French Quarter, there is a small liberal arts college

0:16.7

called Dillard University.

0:18.8

The campus is an elegant cluster of 100-year-old white buildings bordering a large lawn.

0:25.2

Long rows of live oaks run down either side of the green.

0:28.5

It looks like a postcard from the 1930s.

0:31.7

And because this is New Orleans, the school requires amazing.

0:49.7

The president of Dillard is Walter Kimbrough, tall mid-50s, close crop tear, pencil thin

0:55.5

mustache, bachelor of science from the University of Georgia, master's degree from Miami University,

1:01.4

PhD from Georgia State.

1:05.8

Your father is a very well-known pastor in Atlanta.

1:09.7

Yeah.

1:10.7

That's right.

1:11.7

He's Walter Senior, you're Walter Junior.

1:13.2

Well, we have different mill names.

1:14.8

So he's Walter Lee and I'm Walter Mark, because he felt like Walter Lee was country.

1:18.7

So he didn't give me that.

1:21.5

But yeah, that's my day, yeah.

1:25.3

I would encourage you, should you ever be in New Orleans, to pay a visit to Dillard.

1:31.6

Hear the choir perform if you can and walk around the campus as I did with Walter Kimbrough.

1:39.1

Now, we're in this area of New Orleans, it's Gentelli's College, and Tilly.

1:46.2

The area is very residential.

1:48.2

It was middle-class African-American community.

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