As Mardi Gras approaches in New Orleans, maskers and parades take center stage

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As Mardi Gras approaches in New Orleans, maskers and parades take center stage

“It’s like a six-mile-long block party and nothing could be more fun. It’s for everyone,” New Orleans locals describe Mardi Gras season.

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Creole New Orleans newspaper editor Paul Trévigne, thebiracial son of a Battle of New Orleans veteran, was born in New Orleans in1825. Trévigne was part of the free people of color community in Louisiana thatprotested racial injustice before the Civil War and helped establish Republicanpolitics in

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Randolph, Asa Philip

Randolph, Asa Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader, b. Crescent City, Fla., attended the College of the City of New York. As a writer and editor of the black magazine The Messenger, which he helped to found, Randolph became interested in the labor movement. In 1917 he organized a small union of

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Dillard University chartered in New Orleans, La.

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Jun

1869

Morton, Jelly Roll

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890–1941, American jazz musician, composer, and band leader, originally named Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, b. Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as a child and in his youth was a pianist in the colorful Storyville district of New Orleans. Later he played with Johnny

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Callioux, Andrew (1820-1863)

Andrew Callioux, Captain of the First Louisiana Native Guards Regiment, Union Army, became a hero while leading his troops at the Battle of Port Hudson in 1863. Callioux was born a free man in New Orleans. A cigar maker with an elite clientele, Callioux was a Catholic creole of color that had

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Reggie Bush

Name at birth: Reginald Alfred Bush II

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Daniel Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong born

Daniel Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Jul

1900

The Emancipation Proclamation

On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln went into effect. The Proclamation, written the previous September, declared free all enslaved people in the Confederate States (or portions of those states) who resided in territory still in rebellion

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Jan

1863

Marie Laveau, the "Queen of the Voodoos,"

Marie Laveau, the Queen of the Voodoos, was dethroned because of old

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Jun

1868

Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized

Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized at New Orleans meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. as president.

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Feb

1957

Slave Uprising Suppressed

US troops suppress slave uprising in two Louisiana parishes near New Orleans.

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Jan

1811

(1867) John Sella Martin, A Speech Before the Paris Antislavery Conference

Home

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Aug

1867

(1869) John Willis Menard, “Speech Before the United States House of Representatives”

John Willis Menard, (1838-1893) was the first African American elected to Congress when on November 3, 1868 he received the majority of votes to fill the unexpired term of Louisiana Second District Congressman James Mann. On the strength of the vote Menard went to Washington to be seated. However

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Travis, Geraldine Washington (1931- )

Geraldine W. Travis is the first African American elected to the Montana State Legislature House of Representatives. She worked actively to promote civil rights for African Americans, women, and children, and to break down racial barriers in Montana from 1967 to

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Louisiana legislature met in New Orleans

Louisiana legislature met in New Orleans. The temporary chairman of the house was a Black representative, R.H. Isabelle. Oscar J. Dunn presided over the senate. Seven of the thirty-six senators were Black. Thirty-five of the 101 representatives were Black.

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Jun

1868

Attack on black and white Republicans

White Democrats, led by police, attacked a convention of Black and white Republicans in New Orleans. More than 40 persons were killed, and at least 150 were wounded. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Military commander of the state, said, It was not riot; it was an absolute massacre...which the mayor and

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Jul

1866

Nash, Charles Edmund (1844-1913)

Republican Charles Edmund Nash served in the 44th Congress as Louisiana’s only black representative. Nash was born in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on May 23, 1844. Before his time in Congress Nash attended common schools, was a bricklayer in New Orleans, and had enlisted as a private

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May

1844

Actor/Comedian Garrett Morris born

Actor/Comedian Garrett Morris, formerly of Saturday Night Live, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Feb

1937

La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

The New Orleans Tribune was the first African American daily newspaper in the United States. Started in 1864 by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual. Articles were written in both French, for the majority of African Americans in Louisiana, and English, in order

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John Parker, Underground Railroad Conductor died

Born: 1827

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Jan

1900

Naming of new appointees

Gen. Philip H. Sheridan dismissed the board of aldermen in New Orleans and named new appointees, including several Blacks.

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Aug

1867

Andrew Young born

Andrew Young, former US United Nations ambassador, former congressman and former mayor of Atlanta, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Mar

1932

The South Carolina Gazette reports that Cae

The South Carolina Gazette reports that Caesar, a South Carolina slave has been granted his freedom and a life time annuity in exchange for his cures for poison and rattlesnake bite. Caesar and the famous James Derham of New Orleans are two of the earliest know African American medical

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May

1750

John Parker

John P. Parker was born in 1827 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father was white and his mother was a black slave. John was sold to a slave agent in 1835 and then sold to a slave caravan which took him to Mobile, Alabama where he was purchased by a physician. Working as a house servant, Parker learned to

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Nov

2012

In New Orleans, 25,000 Black workers strike, 1892

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Oct

1892

George "Little Chocolate" Dixon betas Jack Skelly in New Orleans to win the worl

George Little Chocolate Dixon betas Jack Skelly in New Orleans to win the world featherweight title. While some African American citizens celebrate for two days, the New Orleans Times-Democrat says, It is a mistake to match a Negro and a white man ...to bring the races together on any terms of

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Sep

1892

Fats Domino

Pop singer Chubby Checker took his stage name as a play on Fats Domino… Pat Boone’s version of “Ain’t That A Shame” reached number one on the charts, but Domino’s version only reached number 10… “Blueberry Hill” was a standard that had been a top hit for Glenn Miller in

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LeMelle, Wilbert J., Sr. (1931-2003)

Wilbert J. LeMelle, Sr., was a scholar, development specialist, and ambassador to Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles between 1977 and 1980. In both his academic and diplomatic work, LeMelle urged the United States to become more engaged in Africa, focusing on economic development and human

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Henderson, George Washington (c. 1850-1936)

Born a slave in Clark County, Virginia, George Washington Henderson graduated from the University of Vermont in 1877 and became the first African American to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the highest academic honor society. He later received a bachelor’s degree in divinity from Yale

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Feb

1936

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