Beginning his term just after the passage of the Constitution of 1845, Governor Johnson was determined to uphold its somewhat controversial provisions including the elimination of property qualifications that limited the voting pool, and the creation of a public school system.
J. D. Miller’s recording studios in Crowley are best known for recording South Louisiana musical genres but the studio leaves a mixed legacy, having produced a series of racist songs in the 1960s.
The US government forcibly interned around twelve hundred Japanese American citizens and Japanese residents at Camp Livingston during World War II.
New Orleans Jazz Funerals are public burial services for prominent community members; traditionally African American males. After the funeral service, a procession of musicians, funeral directors, family, and friends moves from the site of the funeral to the cemetery while marching to the beat of a brass band.
Two French brothers notorious for smuggling and slave trading also participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
A radical civil rights advocate during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Jean Baptiste Roudanez helped found two historic Black newspapers.
Dumont de Montigny is best remembered for writing a colorful, suspenseful, and often humorous memoir about his experience as an officer, farmer, and explorer in eighteenth-century French colonial Louisiana.
Jelly Roll Morton was the first important composer and arranger of New Orleans jazz, as well as an agile pianist, a compelling singer, and one of the early jazz world's most flamboyant characters.
Ancestors of the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians avoided resettlement and remained in Louisiana following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians is one of four Louisiana tribes recognized by the federal government and one of fifteen recognized by the state.
In the late nineteenth century, the implementation of Jim Crow—or racial segregation—laws institutionalized white supremacy and Black inferiority throughout the South.
After the Civil War, African Americans gained some political rights and power before having them taken away again during the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation.
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