"The Clay Monument, Canal Street, New Orleans."

ID: 2083 ~ Source: Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/2016817550/. ~ Creator: Detroit Publishing Co., publisher. William Henry Jackson, photographer. ~ Date: Between 1880 and 1897.
This file appears in: Joseph Guillaume's Audacious Ride

Mule drawn streetcar on Canal Street.

This file appears in: Joseph Guillaume's Audacious Ride

By Kevin J. Brown
On May 4, 1867, Guillaume acted. What happened next is open to some debate. According to the New Orleans Times, at 11:30 a.m. Guillaume hailed a “Whites Only” car number 148 on Love Street, now known…