Southeast Louisiana (Florida Parishes) Archives - Page 15 of 37

Government, Politics & Law

Jean-Michel de Lépinay

Jean-Michel de Lépinay served as the fifth governor of Louisiana from 1717 to 1718.

Government, Politics & Law

Jim Crow & Segregation

In the late nineteenth century, the implementation of Jim Crow—or racial segregation—laws institutionalized white supremacy and Black inferiority throughout the South.

Nikki Brown

8.9 j. Jim Crow and Segregation

After the Civil War, African Americans gained some political rights and power before having them taken away again during the era of Jim Crow laws and segregation.

Nikki Brown

Government, Politics & Law

Jimmie Davis

Country music singer Jimmie Davis served two nonconsecutive terms as governor of Louisiana, from 1944 to 1948 and from 1960 to 1964.

Kevin Fontenot

History

Jimmy Swaggart

Called the "King of Honky Tonk Heaven" by Newsweek in 1982, Ferriday's Jimmy Swaggart was America's most popular televangelist in the 1980s.

Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen

Sports & Recreation

Joe Brown

Boxer Joe Brown made his professional debut at age seventeen at the Victory Arena in New Orleans.

S. Derby Gisclair

Government, Politics & Law

John Bel Edwards

John Bel Edwards served as a Democratic governor of Louisiana from 2016 to 2024.

Pearson Cross

John Avery Lomax was a folklorist and musicologist who, with his son Alan Lomax, made the first recording of the Louisiana blues guitarist Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Alison Fensterstock

Government, Politics & Law

John McEnery

In 1872 John McEnery was elected governor in one of the most controversial and bizarre elections in Louisiana history.

Arthur W. Bergeron

Government, Politics & Law

John Parker

John M. Parker, who served as governor of Louisiana between 1920 and 1924, was a passionate advocate of political reform movements and good government initiatives.

Matthew J. Schott