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African American Heritage Trail
Southern is one of the largest historically Black universities in the world. The school was established in New Orleans as an agricultural and mechanical school in 1879 during the post-Reconstruction period. Although it offered courses in the…
African American Heritage Trail
Port Hudson State Historic Site was the site of the first major use of African American troops in combat during the Civil War. In 1863, several regiments of the Louisiana Native Guards, locally recruited from formerly enslaved people and free…
African American Heritage Trail
Tucked inside Lake Charles’s historic Central School Arts and Humanities Center, this gallery showcases the contributions African Americans have made to Southwest Louisiana’s history and culture through rotating art and cultural exhibits from…
African American Heritage Trail
While the Folklife Center serves primarily as an educational center for local youth, it still offers an intense, personal narrative of local African American life in the first half of the 20th century. Creole folklorist Rebecca Henry has collected…
African American Heritage Trail
This turn-of-the-20th-century wood frame house serves as a memorial to the incredible life and work of Arnaud “Arna” Wendell Bontemps, one of the nation’s most prolific African American writers. Although his family left Alexandria while he was…
African American Heritage Trail
Built by Nicholas Augustin Metoyer, St. Augustine is the first Catholic Church in the United States to be founded, independently financed and built by African Americans for their use. The structure is more than two centuries old and still in…
African American Heritage Trail
Oakland Plantation & Magnolia Plantation Established as a historical park by the United States Congress in 1994, the Cane River Creole National Historical Park comprises Oakland Plantation and parts of Magnolia Plantation. Within the park, you…
African American Heritage Trail
For more than two centuries, the Cane River area near Natchitoches has been home to a distinct cultural group: Afro-Creoles. This group descended from the French planter Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer and his African wife, Marie-Thérèse Coin-Coin.…
African American Heritage Trail
This community center and interpretive facility features a wide array of exhibits on the many different cultures represented in Shreveport’s population. There are more than 26 diverse cultural groups living in the Shreveport-Bossier area, and this…
African American Heritage Trail
The Southern University Museum of Art (SUMAS) is a compact gallery that features a collection of university- and privately-donated artwork. SUMAS has a remarkable collection of African and African American art and artifacts representing centuries…