Sports & Recreation
Tony Canzoneri
Louisiana' Tony Canzoneri secured his place among the boxing elite when he became the second fighter in history to win world championships in three different weight classes.
Orleans
Orleans Index
Music
Treme Brass Band
The Treme Brass Band is widely known for maintaining the traditional New Orleans brass band style.
Music
Trombone Shorty
New Orleanian Trombone Shorty is a nationally acclaimed recording artist and performer.
Literature
Truman Capote
New Orleans-born author Truman Capote wrote the first nonfiction novel, "In Cold Blood" in 1966.
Disasters
Up Stairs Lounge Fire
The act of arson at the Up Stairs Lounge, a gay bar in the French Quarter, was the deadliest fire on record in New Orleans history and the largest mass killing of queer citizens in twentieth-century America.
Business & Industry
Urban Slavery in Antebellum Louisiana
Enslaved people in Louisiana’s cities were engaged in virtually every labor role, from domestic service to dentistry.
7.10 j., l. Urban Slavery in Antebellum Louisiana
Enslaved people in Louisiana’s cities were engaged in nearly every labor role, from domestic service to dentistry.
History
Valcour Aime
Valcour Aime employed the latest technologies and oversaw the creation of an elaborate garden on his sugar plantation.
Literature
Victor Séjour
Victor Séjour’s 1837 story “Le Mulâtre” is considered the first work of published fiction by an African American writer.
Folklife
Voudou
Voudou, a synthesis of African religious and magical beliefs with Roman Catholicism, emerged in New Orleans in the 1700s and survives in active congregations today.
History
Wesley Chapel
One of the first Black Protestant churches in Louisiana, Wesley Chapel played pivotal roles in social and political movements, from teaching freed Black women to read after the Civil War to engaging in the civil rights movement.
Sports & Recreation
Whitey Esneault
For nearly fifty years, legendary boxing trainer Whitey Esnault trained both neighborhood children and world champions in his French Quarter gym.
