The Battle of Liberty Place

ID: 6468 ~ Source: "The Louisiana Outrages - Attack upon the police in the streets of New Orleans," October 3, 1874, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1974.25.9.226/the-louisiana-outrages---attack-upon-the-police-in-the-streets-of-new-orleans.

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The Battle of Liberty Place took place in 1874. Rodolphe Desdunes served in the state militia that attempted to thwart 5,000 members of the White League protesting the 1872 election from taking over the statehouse in New Orleans. The Battle of Liberty Place is one of several examples of racial and political violence that occurred in Louisiana during Reconstruction.

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…