Government, Politics & Law
“A Change Is Gonna Come”
Sam Cooke wrote the civil rights anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come” after encountering racial discrimination while on tour in Shreveport.
History
History Index
Government, Politics & Law
1795 Point Coupee Slave Conspiracy
Enslaved, free Black, and white people planned an insurrection to end slavery in Spanish colonial Louisiana roughly 150 miles north of New Orleans.
Folklife
1873 Comus Parade
Mardi Gras of 1873 provided the occasion for a bold display of political commentary and costume artistrly by the Mystick Krewe of Comus.
History
A. P. Tureaud
A. P. Tureaud was a key legal activist in an era of vigorous challenges to Jim Crow in twentieth-century Louisiana.
History
African Americans in the Civil War
African Americans, both freed and enslaved, played critical roles in Civil War Louisiana.
Government, Politics & Law
Alejandro O'Reilly
This entry provides a biographical overview of Alejandro O'Reilly, the second Spanish governor of Louisiana.
Art
Alexandre de Batz
Alexandre de Batz created the earliest known images of Native Americans in the lower Mississippi valley from sketches he rendered while surveying Louisiana in the eighteenth century.
Government, Politics & Law
Alexandre Mouton
Alexandre Mouton, the first Democratic governor of Louisiana, served from 1843 to 1846.
History
Alice Heine
Alice Heine from New Orleans became the first American-born Princess of Monaco by way of marriage in 1889.
Architecture
Alice Plantation
In 1961, the upper floor of this house was floated by barge along Bayou Teche from its original location in St. Mary Parish, which was being developed as a subdivision.
Government, Politics & Law
Alvin King
Alvin King served as governor of Louisiana for five months during a political power struggle between Huey P. Long and Lieutenant Governor Paul Cyr.
History
Amédé Ardoin
One of southern Louisiana's first great recording artists was Creole accordionist and singer Amédé Ardoin.
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