A view of the Orleans Parish Prison, where self-liberating people were held after capture and endured poor prison conditions.

ID: 6298 ~ Source: “Police jail & Parish prison,” Marshall Dunham Photograph Album (Mss. 3241), Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-mdp%3A179.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 4: Georges, Jasper, and Celestin

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 4: Georges, Jasper, and Celestin

Streets on the Table Episode 4: Georges, Jasper, and Celestin

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…