An inside look at the Orleans Parish Prison execution yard, where cells are visible.

ID: 6306 ~ Source: The execution yard at the Old Parish Prison, ca. 1900, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/32459.

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

Enslaved people were incarcerated and faced punishments here.

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…