Stone memorializing George Washington Cable
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Cable, George Washington
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Stone memorializing George Washington Cable
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The 'Walk of Fame' was created in 1929 by then-president Hamilton Holt to honor significant historical figures.
George W. Cable (1844-1925) was a writer from New Orleans. He was born into a slave holding family and went on to serve in the Confederate Army where he was severely wounded. During his time wounded and out of the war, Cable thought about what the Confederacy was fighting for and rethought his stance on slavery.
After the Civil War, he wrote "The Grandissimes," a book that depicts the reality of Creole life in antebellum Louisiana and the brutality of slavery.
In 1884, Cable moved north and started writing more systematically about racial inequities in the United States. He attacked the convict lease system, segregation, the lack of African American voting rights among other issues.
The stone was located in the center of campus around Mills Lawn, was acquired in 1931.
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Holt, Hamilton Holt
Hanna, A. J.
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April 15, 1931
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Hamilton Holt, A. J. Hanna
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