This photo of Canal Street includes McCrory’s, where four student members of the Congress of Racial Equality staged a sit-in, protesting segregation in New Orleans.

ID: 6321 ~ Source: Charles L. Franck and Nancy Ewing Miner, Mayfair; Katz & Besthoff; McCrory's; Allens, 1001 - 1017 Canal Street, 24 September 1955, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Charles L. Franck Studio Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/56771.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 6: Dr. Norman C. Francis

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 6: Dr. Norman C. Francis

Streets on the Table Episode 6: Dr. Norman C. Francis

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…