Seeing the Sweet with the Bitter
Magazine, Spring 2019
Photographer Frank Relle sees beauty as crucial to his craft—and his message
Photographer Frank Relle sees beauty as crucial to his craft—and his message
James G. Taliaferro, delegate from Catahoula Parish, wrote this political broadside against the ordinance of secession passed by the Louisiana convention on January 26, 1861.
Many New Orleans citizens adamantly, even violently, opposed the integration of the public schools in 1960. In Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck describes the “cheerleaders,” a group of white parents fighting integration, as performers who shout “bestial and filthy and degenerate” words at “the littlest Negro girl you ever saw.” A cheerleader is shown here kicking.
White teenagers in New Orleans shown protesting the integration of the public schools in 1960.
Ralston Crawford shot this image of a Dew Drop Inn dance contest for female impersonators in 1954. On the left is the vocalist Bobby Marchan, who frequently performed in drag. Dew Drop Inn emcee Patsy Vidalia is in the center (wearing hoop earrings), and Joe Jones plays the piano.
These masked protesters took to the streets in New Orleans on October 15, 1969 to decry the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.
On October 15, 1969, protesters in New Orleans marched against the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Students from Loyola and Tulane universities in New Orleans came together to protest the role of the United States in the Vietnam War. Matt Anderson took this photograph between 1969 and 1972.
Students from Southern University protest discrimination and picket Kress Department Store in downtown Baton Rouge.
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