Straight University

ID: 6465 ~ Source: “Schools And Colleges,” 1908, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1990.51.2.19%20i-vi/schools-and-colleges.

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Straight University, shown in the bottom photograph, circa 1908.

This file appears in: Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

By Connie Dorsey Abdul-Salaam and Jason Van, edited by Jessica Dauterive and Lauren Smith

Born in New Orleans in 1849, Rodolphe Desdunes actively participated in the city’s Creole social and political scene, eventually co-founding the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens’ Committee) in 1891. As the son of Pierre Feremie Desdunes, of Haitian…