America’s first Black daily newspaper, the New Orleans Tribune served as an organizing tool for Black activists as they campaigned for rights for men of African descent with an emphasis on building solidarity with the formerly enslaved.
The oil and gas industry has been a dominant economic engine in Louisiana for well over a century.
An unofficial cultural ambassador for Louisiana beginning in the 1970s, Paul Prudhomme was a Cajun chef, restauranteur, author, television star, and entrepreneur.
Paul Trévigne, a free man of color, was an editor, teacher, and orator who advocated for civil rights in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Enslaved people endured brutal conditions on sugarcane and cotton plantations during the antebellum period.
Louisiana is home to 128 identified salt domes, including the coastal dome now known as Avery Island.
Samuel Zemurray was key to creating a global banana industry that generated great wealth, often at the expense of Latin American laborers, democracy, and economic development.
The Shreve Town Company was a for-profit business venture that led to the establishment of what is today known as Shreveport, the largest city in northwest Louisiana.
The Singer Submarine Company operated a naval yard on the banks of Cross Bayou that built five Confederate submarines, four of which were sunk before seeing combat.
In the early 1900s, the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana built one of the largest refineries in the world in Baton Rouge.
Enslaved people in Louisiana’s cities were engaged in virtually every labor role, from domestic service to dentistry.
The United States’ entry into World War II spurred Louisiana’s recovery from the economic doldrums of the Great Depression.
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