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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sulc.edu/about/history.htm|title=Southern University Law Center|publisher=sulc.edu|accessdate=May 23, 2010}}</ref> For a time, he was the only black attorney in Shreveport,<ref name=stone>"Jesse N. Stone, Noted Louisiana Lawyer And Educator, Dies At 76," ''Jet Magazine,'' May 2001.</ref> much as Louis Berry (1914-1998) had filled that role in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana.<ref name=findagrave/>
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sulc.edu/about/history.htm|title=Southern University Law Center|publisher=sulc.edu|accessdate=May 23, 2010}}</ref> For a time, he was the only black attorney in Shreveport,<ref name=stone>"Jesse N. Stone, Noted Louisiana Lawyer And Educator, Dies At 76," ''Jet Magazine,'' May 2001.</ref> much as Louis Berry (1914-1998) had filled that role in [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana.<ref name=findagrave/>
During the [[civil rights]] movement, Stone, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], was affiliated with the [[NAACP]] and worked as well through the Congress of Racial Equality, founded in [[Chicago]] in 1942 by [[James Farmer]], Jr., and the newer [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]], established in 1960 in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], by the Reverend [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] During the 1960s, Stone was active in the [[Segregation|desegregation]] of the public schools in Caddo Parish.<ref name=stone/>
During the [[civil rights]] movement, Stone, a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], was affiliated with the [[NAACP]] and worked as well through the Congress of Racial Equality, founded in [[Chicago]] in 1942 by James Leonard Farmer, Jr. (1920-1999), and the newer [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]], established in 1960 in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], by the Reverend [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] During the 1960s, Stone was active in the [[Segregation|desegregation]] of the public schools in Caddo Parish.<ref name=stone/>
Stone rose to state prominence during the administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], having filled the positions of associate director of the Louisiana Commission on Human Relations, Rights and Responsibilities and as the assistant state superintendent of education<ref name=stone/> under [[Bill Dodd]].
Stone rose to state prominence during the administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]], having filled the positions of associate director of the Louisiana Commission on Human Relations, Rights and Responsibilities and as the assistant state superintendent of education<ref name=stone/> under [[Bill Dodd]].