First African American Secretary of State
Colin Powell
Dillard, SUNO, Xavier
New Orleans HBCUs
Located at the Corner of North Tonti and Bienville
Central Congregational Church
First African American Elected US President
2008
Zulu Spoofed Rex and Concealed Their Identity Similar to Al Jolson in the Jazz Singer
Black Face
Father of 5 African American Jazz Musicians in New Orleans Who Died in 2020
Ellis Marsalis
Prominent African American Catholic High School
St. Augustine High School
Location of the US's Largest Civil Rights March in 1963
The Washington Mall
The Year Central St. Matthew was Founded
2014
First Major Act of the Civil Rights Movement Led by Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Two Women Who Have the Same First Name and Were Both Educators and Members of CSM
Helen
African American Hospital in New Orleans that Closed in 1983
Flint Goodridge
African American Neighborhood Listed on the National Historic Register
Pontchartrain Park
The First African American Public School Opened in New Orleans
1917
Supreme Court Decision about a Case begun in New Orleans that Codified "Separate but Equal" Doctrine
Plessy VS Ferguson