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Guest column: Louisiana and incarceration have a long and troubling past
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Guest column: Louisiana and incarceration have a long and troubling past
In the final gallery of the Historic New Orleans Collection’s award-winning exhibition, "Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration," visitors were asked to reflect and respond to the question, “If you could change Louisiana’s incarceration system, where would you begin?” Nearly 2,000 visitors wrote an answer to the question and posted it on the wall, creating an evolving space for visitors to envision a brighter future. Captive State is a groundbreaking public history project.
Where do second lines come from? The origins go back more than 200
Editor’s note: This story is released in conjunction with The Historic New Orleans Collection’s 2021 Symposium, “Recovered Voices: Black Activism in New Orleans from Reconstruction to the Present Day” and the exhibition Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans. On June 11, 1864, the Black community of New Orleans celebrated the end of slavery with an Emancipation Jubilee.
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CARYN COSSÉ BELL is an associate at the Ethel and Herman L. Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans and professor emeritus of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her current book, Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic: Une histoire de famille, is nearly complete.
Before the Superdome, Tulane Stadium hosted the city’s-and country’s-biggest events
On October 24, 1926, in typically festive New Orleans fashion, Tulane Stadium was officially opened. Dedication speeches by Mayor Arthur J. O’Keefe and Governor O. H. Simpson followed a parade of students and supporters as 15,000 spectators filled the stands to watch the Tulane Green Wave battle the Auburn Tigers in the stadium’s inaugural game. The Tigers, however, spoiled the Greenies’ celebration with a blocked punt, a safety, and a 2-0 victory.
How brass bands became a New Orleans tradition-picking up new sounds along the way
Over the course of the past century, the sound of horns singing out above a driving second-line beat has become an ingrained component of New Orleans’s unique musical culture. This tradition dates back to the mid-19th century, when a national craze for brass bands erupted in New Orleans. By century’s end, there were an estimated 10,000 active bands in the US, equaling roughly one band for every 6,300 people.
From Congo Square to Europe-and back: music of the African diaspora in New Orleans
So much of New Orleans’s musical culture rests on its diversity, of styles, practitioners, and influences. The music of the African diaspora is a big part of this story—itself driven by diverse experiences and culture. A closer examination of some of these stories, particularly a few from the 18th and 19th centuries, can further elucidate not only the city’s musical heritage, but its social and cultural history as well.
The Easter 1960 shopping boycott that led Dryades Street businesses to hire African-Americans
Editor’s Note: The Historic New Orleans Collection and The New Orleans Advocate present this occasional series looking back on the people, events and traditions that have shaped the Crescent City. The series features images from the institution’s holdings and vignettes from THNOC staff that illuminate various aspects of our area’s history and culture.
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