Allen Toussaint, a music icon, created a distinctly New Orleans sound.

ID: 6283 ~ Source: Michael P. Smith, “Allen Toussaint,” 1980, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/269109.

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…