US Customs House

ID: 6469 ~ Source:

“Customs House,” 1884-1894, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Permanent Collection, Gift of Ms. N. West Moss, https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/2016.0386.1.1.198/custom-house.

This file appears in: Rodolphe and Daniel Desdunes

Rodolphe Desdunes worked at the US Customs House at 423 Canal Street in New Orleans to make a living while he worked on his civil rights activism.

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…