A New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune, announced the local court’s decision in favor of Madam Decuir.

ID: 6479 ~ Source: “Important Decision on Civil Rights,” The Times-Picayune, June 15, 1873, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/272262/josephine-decuir-vs-joseph-benson-of/.

This file appears in: Madame Josephine Decuir

A New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune, announced the local court’s decision in favor of Madam Decuir.

This file appears in: Madame Josephine Decuir

Madame Josephine Decuir

By Jordan Hammon, edited by Adam D. Coste, Jessica Dauterive, and Lauren Smith

By the 1870s, steamboats carried passengers up and down the Mississippi River, docking in the ports of major cities like New Orleans. Here, in July 1872, Captain John Benson denied Josephine Decuir née Dubuclet entry into the women’s cabin on the…