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Within the U.S., Louisiana has the fifth largest overall African American population. Louisiana has the second largest percentage of African Americans in the country, only behind Mississippi. [5] As of the 2020 U.S. census, Black Louisianians of African heritage were 32.8% of the state's population. [6]
New Orleans African American Museum. Louisiana African American Heritage Trail (French: Sentier de l'héritage afro-américain de la Louisiane) is a cultural heritage trail with 38 sites designated by the state of Louisiana, from New Orleans along the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge and Shreveport, with sites in small towns and plantations also included.
Together with a more permeable historic French system related to the status of gens de couleur libres (free people of color), often born to white fathers and their mixed-race partners, a far higher percentage of African Americans in the state of Louisiana were free as of the 1830 census (13.2% in Louisiana, compared to 0.8% in Mississippi ...
Because of its strong association with the Metoyer family, Melrose Plantation is the major regional site for National Park Service interpretation of the history of Creoles of color in the region. [19] In 2008, the state included Melrose Plantation among the first twenty-six sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
In Louisiana, the Redbone cultural group consists mainly of the families of migrants to the state following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The term Redbone became disfavored as it was a pejorative nickname applied by others; however, in the past 30 years, the term has begun to be used as the preferred description for some creole groups, including the Louisiana Redbones.
H. Historically black universities and colleges in Louisiana (7 C, 7 P) Historically segregated African-American schools in Louisiana (34 P) History of slavery in Louisiana (2 C, 37 P)
Coordinates: 30°6′4.9″N 90°59′24.4″W. River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free. The museum notes their contributions to the River ...
Coordinates: 30.4394459°N 91.1854037°W. The Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American History Museum or the Baton Rouge African-American Museum, is a non-profit [1] museum of African-American history and heritage located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, [2] United States. The museum is named for Odell S. Williams, an educator in Baton Rouge ...