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New Orleans’s basketball team is named for Louisiana’s state bird, the brown pelican.
New Orleans’s basketball team is named for Louisiana’s state bird, the brown pelican.
Founded in 1936, the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony permanently suspended operations in 1991.
When it was aired, the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl victory in 2010 was the most-watched television broadcast in history, drawing more than 153 million viewers.
The integration of the Orleans Parish public schools in 1960 was the result of years of effort at the national, state, and local levels.
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.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women’s book clubs became increasingly popular in New Orleans.
The current Louisiana State Capitol is the tallest capitol building in the United States.
The New State Capitol building was part of Governor Huey Long’s public works campaign to improve the state’s physical infrastructure.
Tulane’s coordinate college for women has a strong tradition of its own.
A segregation-era law voted down in 2018 and deemed unconstitutional in 2020
Nottoway is one of the largest antebellum houses in the South and the largest surviving plantation house in Louisiana.
Imported in the early twentieth century for their fur, nutria have exploded into an invasive species that contributes to coastal erosion.
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