The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike

The Thibodaux Massacre: Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor StrikeOn November 23, 1887, white vigilantes gunned down unarmed black laborers and their families during a spree lasting more than two hours. The violence erupted due to strikes on Louisiana sugar cane plantations. Fear, rumor and white supremacist ideals clashed with an unprecedented labor action to create an epic tragedy. A future member of the U. S. House of Representatives was among the leaders of a mob that routed black men from houses and forced them

the design was carried by French explorers across North America during the 16th and 17th centuries

1834 Firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning home of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie

son of the Baroness Michaela de Pontalba

Whether facing police raids in the 1960s or AIDS in the 1980s

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This reproduction of a rare Mississippi River "ribbon map" was drawn by Captain Willard Glazier to "prove" his premise that the True Source of the Mississippi was Lake Glazier rather than Lake Itasca

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as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans

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Gay krewes were first formed in the late 1950s