Allen Toussaint is depicted in an anniversary poster for the iconic New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

ID: 6281 ~ Source: James Michalopoulos, “New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009,” The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, 2009, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/195392.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 1: Allen Toussaint

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Streets on the Table Episode 1: Allen Toussaint

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…