Business & Industry
Brotherhood of Timber Workers
An integrated labor union violently suppressed by lumber barons.
Janet Allured
History
Clay Latimer
Attorney and feminist activist Clayton, or Clay, Latimer was instrumental in many of the reforms achieved by the modern women's rights movement in Louisiana.
Art
Clementine Hunter
Clementine Hunter was an Afro-Creole artist who is best known for her paintings depicting scenes from African-American life on the southern plantation in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
History
Clinton Clark
A civil rights unionist from Pointe Coupee Parish, Clark faced frequent violence in his efforts to organize tenant farmers.
Business & Industry
Grabow Riot (Massacre)
Labor union meeting results in death and arrest of timber workers.
History
Judaism in Louisiana
Jewish people have greatly contributed to Louisiana’s culture and economy as philanthropists, civic and educational leaders, business owners, and art patrons.
Government, Politics & Law
Louisiana Constitution of 1898
Bourbon Democrats suppressed democracy and restored white supremacy in the Louisiana State Constitution of 1898.
Populism
In the late 1800s Americans witnessed a period of rapid industrialization and political transformation that drew some Louisianans to the Populist movement.
Religion & Spirituality
Protestantism in Louisiana
Several Protestant denominations are present in Louisiana with Southern Baptist and Methodist as the most dominant.
History
Women's Rights Movement
Inspired by social justice and protest movements percolating across the country in the 1960s, Second Wave feminists sought liberation and equal rights for women.
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