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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
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
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
Built in the early 1930s by the dynamic political leader Huey Long, the Louisiana State Capitol has outstanding artwork and an incredible view of the city from an observation platform at the top. It stands as the tallest state capitol building in…
African American Heritage Trail
The Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum showcases African American heritage through writings, inventions, photos, artwork and history. The museum has eight galleries covering the history of Louisiana's Florida Parishes, a genealogy lab,…
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
One of the most intriguing tours along Louisiana’s River Road is offered by Laura: A Creole Plantation and focuses on the white and Black Creole families that lived at this place in the 19th century. Built in 1805, this French-Creole-style…
African American Heritage Trail
Located in the little river town of Donaldsonville, once the commercial center for the Bayou Lafourche district, the River Road African American Heritage Museum features materials relating to slavery and African American life in the neighboring…
African American Heritage Trail
Mahalia Jackson is widely considered the best and most influential gospel vocalist in history. She grew up in the Carrollton neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans in a three-room dwelling that housed thirteen people, beginning her singing career as a…
African American Heritage Trail
Just west of Louisiana’s capital city, Port Allen’s West Baton Rouge Museum tells the story of rural, pre-Civil War era plantation life. Permanent exhibits showcase early French Creole architecture and the cultivation of sugar throughout history.…