History
Lulu White
Lulu White was one of the most notorious and financially successful madams in Storyville, New Orleans's red-light district.
Orleans
Orleans Index
Literature
Lyle Saxon
Lyle Saxon published articles, short stories, books of creative nonfiction, and one novel; he also directed the Louisiana branch of the Federal Writers Project.
Music
Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson, a New Orleans native, was one of the most powerful and influential singers in the history of gospel music.
Music
Mannie Fresh
Byron O. Thomas, known professionally by his stage name Mannie Fresh, is a Grammy-nominated producer and rapper from New Orleans.
History
Marc-Antoine Caillot
This biographical entry covers Marc-Antoine Caillot, a young clerk sent to Louisiana by the French Company of the Indies, who chronicled his journey to and experiences in Louisiana between 1729 and 1731.
Folklife
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is celebrated by costumed revelers, krewes, floats and flambeaux, parades, and masked balls.
History
Margaret Haughery
Margaret Gaffney Haughery was a successful business entrepreneur and noted philanthropist of nineteenth-century New Orleans.
History
Marie Couvent
Marie Couvent, also known as Marie Justine Cirnaire, was a wealthy free woman of color in New Orleans who donated property for use as a free school.
History
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau was a free woman of color born in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Laveau assumed the leadership role of a multiracial religious community for which she gave consultations and held ceremonies. During her time, she was known as "The Priestess of the Voudous"; among many other colorful titles.
History
Marie Louise Snellings
Marie Louise Wilcox Snellings, one of the first women to earn a law degree from Tulane University, became a successful politician in northeastern Louisiana.
Music
Marie Théard
Marie Théard (Moses) achieved distinction as a pianist, piano teacher, collector, arranger, and translator of French and French Creole Patois songs of Louisiana.
History
Marie Tranchepain
Marie Tranchepain was the first Mother Superior of New Orleans’s Ursulines and an early female diarist.
