Disasters
2016 Floods
A rainy weekend in August 2016 unexpectedly left behind more than three times the amount of rain dropped by Hurricane Katrina, damaging 146,000 homes in fifty-six of Louisiana’s sixty-four parishes.
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Architecture
A. Hays Town
A talented and prolific Louisiana architect, A. Hays Town shaped the residential architecture in mid-to late twentieth-century Louisiana.
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.
Art
Ada Thomas
Ada Thomas was one of few remaining weavers of traditional Chitimacha split-cane, double-weave baskets.
Music
Allen Toussaint
Based in New Orleans, Allen Toussaint composed, produced, arranged, and played piano on scores of classic R&B hits from the late 1950s through the 1970s, in addition to recording several solo albums.
Government, Politics & Law
Dave Treen Sr.
Dave Treen served as governor of Louisiana from 1980 to 1984, losing his bid for a second term to Edwin Edwards in 1983.
Sports & Recreation
Emmett Toppino
Martin Emmett Toppino was a champion sprinter from New Orleans who won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics as a member of the US 400-meter relay team.
Art
Frederich Trenchard
Frederich Trenchard's colorful narrative paintings in watercolor and oil, dubbed "magist" by critics at the time, garnered him enthusiastic recognition in New Orleans art circles in the 1970s.
Art
Helen Maria Turner
New Orleans painter Helen Maria Turner was best known for her paintings of people in their own homes and women in gardens.
Government, Politics & Law
Henry Thibodaux
Henry Thibodaux served as interim governor of Louisiana from November to December 1824 after his predecessor, Thomas Bolling Robertson, resigned to become a federal judge.
Music
Irma Thomas
R&B singer Irma Thomas, hailed as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans" has been performing and recording since the 1950s.
Literature
John Kennedy Toole
New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole is known for his posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
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