Art
Debbie Fleming Caffery
Contemporary Louisiana photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery documents the people others often overlook: sugarcane workers, Mexican prostitutes, and the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Long Era
Long Era Index
Art
Deborah Luster
Photographer Deborah Luster eloquently focuses her lens on ugly realities of life in Louisiana: crime and violence.
History
Delphine Dupuy
Delphine Dupuy was a civil rights activist in Baton Rouge who was one of the founding members of the Baton Rouge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1929.
Music
Dennis McGee
Dennis McGee was the most influential of all twentieth-century Cajun fiddle players, having directly taught or indirectly influenced three generations of fiddlers.
Architecture
Destrehan Plantation
Established in 1787, Destrehan Plantation is the oldest documented plantation in the lower Mississippi Valley.
Music
Dew Drop Inn
From the mid-1940s through the 1960s, the Dew Drop Inn was a place where prominent African American entertainers could find work and respectable overnight lodging.
Music
Dewey Balfa
Dewey Balfa was a Cajun musician and cultural activist who emerged in the 1970s as an effective spokesman for the grassroots Cajun identity movement.
Music
Dolly Adams
Jazz pianist Dolly Adams was a respected musician and band leader in New Orleans from the 1920s through the 1970s.
Art
Dom Gregory de Wit
In 1946, Benedictine artist Dom Gregory de Wit began working on his brilliantly colored, large scale murals for the St. Joseph Abbey near Covington, Louisiana.
Art
Dona Lief
Painter Dona Lief was part of the regional school of artists known as "visionary imagists" that emerged from the Faubourg Marigny gallery of George Febres in the 1990s.
Art
Donn Young
Like many photographers, Donn Young has built an assignment-driven professional career balanced with projects of personal interest done for no other client than himself and the general public.
Literature
Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Dix, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, was a writer and immensely popular advice columnist in the early twentieth century.
