Moving photo shows black medical students posing in front of former slave quarters

NEW ORLEANS - DECEMBER 9: Tulane University medical school is seen December 9, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tulane has planned cuts of about 230 faculty members and eight division one NCAA sports programs to help deal with the financial aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

NEW ORLEANS - DECEMBER 9: Tulane University medical school is seen December 9, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tulane has planned cuts of about 230 faculty members and eight division one NCAA sports programs to help deal with the financial aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Sydney Labat shared the photo on both her Instagram account and on Twitter. The tweet has been liked over 70,000 times and has been retweeted over 17,000 times.

Russell Ledet, a second-year med student, told CNN that he got the idea when he visited the Whitney Plantation with his 8-year-old daughter.

"Her insight [to the visit] was, "This is not fair. This is not supposed to happen. So I had this idea that we need to get the black medical students at Tulane and we need to come here. We need to do this for ourselves," Ledet told CNN.

Ledet then shared the idea to pose in front of the slave quarters with his classmates.

15 of the 65 black Tulane University School of Medicine students appear in the photo, each wearing a white jacket that signifies a medical student.

Upon graduation, each will receive a longer white coat, a symbol of being equal to a clinician.

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