Allen Toussaint performs at Jazz Fest in 1989.

ID: 6282 ~ Source: Michael P. Smith, “Allen Toussaint in the Folklife Tent at the New Orleans Jazz Festival,” 7 May 1989, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/199187.

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

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

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…