When journalist Carl Corbin died in New Orleans on Friday at the age of 96, he didn’t just leave behind family and friends — he left a legacy.
In 1934, Corbin and six other Reveille staff members and supporters were immersed in controversy when the paper planned to publish a letter scrutinizing then-Senator Huey P. Long.  
Although the letter in question didn’t mention Long by name and was never published, Long worked to censor The Reveille to ensure the paper would never publish a dissenting opinion of him.
Three members of the staff resigned from the paper rather than operate under a system which stifled their free speech. They were expelled, along with four other journalism students who refused to rescind their signature on a petition that condemned the paper’s censorship.
The entire group soon became known as the “Reveille