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Both served as mechanisms for political mobilization of the Creole populations and though women were not allowed to be members of the club, they were active in organizing political influence. [25] In 1913, de Mena listed her occupation on a trip home as nurse but in the four following years, she styled herself as a housewife. [38]
A notable Creole family was that of Andrea Dimitry. Dimitry was a Greek immigrant who married Marianne Céleste Dragon, a woman of African and Greek ancestry, around 1799. Their son, Creole author and educator Alexander Dimitry, was the first person of color to represent the United States as Ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He was also ...
Creole women traders in the nineteenth century (1981) A Black Feminist in Africa (1981) The Big Market in Freetown: a case study of women's workplace (1980) Creole Women Traders in the Nineteenth Century: Worker Intelligence Networks in Lourenço Marques, 1900-1962 (1980) Creole women traders in Sierra Leone: an economic and social history ...
Creole women, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana 1935 Creole accordeonist Bois Sec Ardoin, longtime musical partner of Canray Fontenot and Wade Frugé Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin Zydeco (a transliteration in English of 'zaricô' (snapbeans) from the song, "Les haricots sont pas salés"), was born in black Creole communities on the prairies of ...
Angela Rye (born 1979) – attorney and political commentator, her paternal grandfather was born in Shreveport, Louisiana; A.P. Tureaud (1899–1972) – attorney for the New Orleans chapter of the NAACP [127] Jacques Villere (1761–1830) – 2nd governor of Louisiana; Joseph Marshall Walker (1784–1856) – 13th governor of Louisiana, 1850 ...
The English word creole derives from the French créole, which in turn came from Portuguese crioulo, a diminutive of cria meaning a person raised in one's house.Cria is derived from criar, meaning "to raise or bring up", itself derived from the Latin creare, meaning "to make, bring forth, produce, beget"; which is also the source of the English word "create".
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Later, their descendants became leaders in New Orleans, held political office in the city and state, and became part of what developed as the African-American middle class in the United States. By 1788, 1,500 Creole women of color and black women were being maintained by white men. [10] Certain customs had evolved.