Stories by author "Paper Monuments": 45
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Claiborne Avenue
Claiborne Avenue, from Treme to the 7th Ward, is a corridor packed to the rafters with memory, resistance and a refusal to be assimilated, dominated and denigrated. It is rockin’ – from one side to…
A Movement Without Marches: Black Women in Public Housing
Starting in the 1920s and increasing exponentially in the 1930s, and onwards, the urban landscape of New Orleans, like many urban municipalities across the country, began to change as a result of a…
Oscar James Dunn
Black civil rights activist and Reconstruction Era politician, whom W.E.B. Du Bois called, "an unselfish, incorruptible, leader."
The Natchez Uprising
Paper Monuments Poster #023
Chinatown
Paper Monument Project #016 Chinatown: New Orleans once had a Chinatown — two, in fact. Its origins trace back to machinations in the global labor market over 150 years ago.
Mother Catherine Seals
Paper Monuments Project #004
Lincoln Beach
Paper Monuments Project #020
Circle Food Store
Paper Monuments Project #031
Les Pierres
“Always the dance floor. Always the music.” And “always a lot of sexual energy.”
Irish Canal Workers: Defying Odds and Defying Expectations
Paper Monuments Project #025:
Battle of Algiers
In the last years of the 18th century, enslavers feared that the practice of enslavement would soon end. It could have, if not for the advent of the cotton gin, which created immense demand for…
Sicilian Lynchings at the Old Parish Prison
On March 15, 1891, a lynch mob of thousands descended upon the city jail. The destruction and terror caused by this well-orchestrated mob reverberated well past this day, affecting local and global…
Robert Charles Riots
In late 1865, Robert Charles was born a free man in Copiah County, southwest Mississippi. It was not long after the Union Army had dealt the treasonous insurrection its final defeat on the…
Dr. Norman C. Francis
Paper Monument Poster #020: Norman C. Francis was President of Xavier University for 46 years and is honored as the nation’s longest-serving college president.
Free Southern Theater
Paper Monuments Project #009:
City Hall Cafeteria Sit-In
Paper Monument Poster #008: The City Hall Sit-In of 1963, a direct action led by the Rev. Avery C. Alexander, served as a pivotal moment in the history of the civil rights movement and racial equality…
Farewell to the Honorable Marcus Garvey
Paper Monument Poster #023: Remembering Marcus Garvey's deportation and commemorates the New Orleans members of the United Negro Improvement Association who stood on the shores of Mississippi to bid…
John Thompson: Resurrection After Exoneration
Paper Monument Poster #044: John Thompson was an exoneree, a death-penalty abolitionist, an orator, and an idealist. The injustice he suffered was a New Orleans story, but John Thompson became a…
Rosa Keller
Paper Monuments Poster #040: Rosa Keller worked tirelessly to address injustice, particularly among African-American residents of New Orleans following World War II.
Madre Francesca Cabrini
Paper Monuments Project #024: The story of Mother Cabrini's work on behalf of Italian immigrants in late-19th and early 20th-century New Orleans.
Saint Katharine Drexel and Xavier University
Katharine Mary Drexel, born on November 26, 1858, into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia was destined to be a socialite and a member of privileged society. He father, Francis A. Drexel…
Couvent School
Paper Monuments Project #022: Catholic Institution, the first community school dedicated to the education of children of color in the Deep South opened its doors in 1848 Funds for the creation of the…
Charity Hospital
Paper Monument Project #025: Charity was the second-oldest continually operating public hospital in the country.
1946 Flambeaux Strike
Paper Monuments Project #021: In 1946, Carnival triumphantly returned to New Orleans’ streets after four years of canceled celebrations due to World War II. On the Thursday before Mardi Gras, a wage…