Music
Clifton Chenier
Clifton Chenier, self-proclaimed “King of the Bayou,” pioneered the modern sound of zydeco music starting in the 1950s.
Clifton Chenier, self-proclaimed “King of the Bayou,” pioneered the modern sound of zydeco music starting in the 1950s.
A civil rights unionist from Pointe Coupee Parish, Clark faced frequent violence in his efforts to organize tenant farmers.
Clyde Connell was a North Louisiana artist who gained international attention for her spiritually-charged totemic sculptures.
Coartación was a legal framework during Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana that allowed enslaved people to purchase their freedom.
The gradual loss of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands is a slow-moving disaster largely set in motion by a series of human interventions in natural processes.
For a state experiencing land loss at an alarming rate, coastal restoration has become an urgent need.
The Code Noir provided rules for how colonists treated enslaved people as well as how people of European and African ancestry interacted in French colonial Louisiana.
The 1724 Code Noir of Louisiana was a means to control the behaviors of Africans, Native Americans, and free people of color.
Once covering most of Louisiana, the Coles Creek culture is known for its distinctive ceremonial mound sites.
In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in the Colfax Massacre.
In 1873 white Louisianans responded to Reconstruction policies with violence, resulting in a massacre that claimed as many as 150 lives.
The Comité des Citoyens was an equal rights organization formed in 1891 that played a key role in the events leading up to Plessy v. Ferguson.
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