Music
Little Walter
Louisiana blues harmonica musician Little Walter Jacobs had his biggest hit with "Juke" in 1952.
Late-20th Century
Late-20th Century Index
Architecture
Live Oaks Plantation
The plantation chapel at Live Oaks, built for the enslaved workers in 1840, is the last to survive in Louisiana.
Music
Lizzie Miles
Lizzie Miles was a vocalist adept at both blues and jazz stylings whose career spanned most of the modern jazz age.
Art
Lloyd Hawthorne
Artist Lloyd Hawthorne is best known for his signature painting "Captain Henry Miller Shreve Clearing the Great Raft from the Red River."
Music
Lloyd Price
Lloyd Price was a New Orleans rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, producer, and music industry executive who forged a uniquely colorful and successful career spanning seven decades.
Music
Lonnie Johnson
New Orleans native Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter whose professional career spanned six decades.
Art
Lory Lockwood
Painter Lory Lockwood's photo realist oil paintings of sports cars, motorcycles, trucks, and engines gleam with hyper-realism and saturated colors.
Government, Politics & Law
Lost Cause
After the Civil War the grief of defeated Confederate supporters became an instrument of defiance and an ideology that justified segregation and white supremacy.
Sports & Recreation
Louis "Rags" Scheuermann
Louis "Rags" Scheuermann was a winning baseball coach at Loyola University and Delgado Community College, as well as in municipal sports programs for the city of New Orleans.
History
Louis Armstrong
Renowned as a seminal figure in the evolution of jazz, Louis Armstrong is also considered one of the major artistic figures of the twentieth century.
8.12 e. Louis Armstrong
New Orleans–born musician Louis Armstrong helped introduce jazz to global audiences.
Music
Louis Gallaud
Louis Gallaud, a pianist from the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, is known for the memorable recordings he made with Punch Miller.
