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Alphonse Picou was born into a prosperous middle-class Creole of Color family in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. [1] His parents were Alfred Picou and Clotilde (Serpas) Picou, who also had other children: Cecilia, Willie, Feriol, Joseph, and Philomene Picou.
As Creoles of color had received superior rights and education with Spain & France than their Black American counterparts, many of the United States' earliest writers, poets, and civil activists (e.g., Victor Séjour, Rodolphe Desdunes and Homère Plessy) were Louisiana Creoles. Today, many of these Creoles of color have assimilated into (and ...
[2] [3] Today, these Creoles of color have assimilated into (and contributed to) Black American culture, while some retain their distinct identity as a subset within the broader African American ethnic group. [4] New Orleans Creoles of color have been named as a "vital source of U.S. national-indigenous culture."
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".
Roy F. Guste – author of ten Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks; fifth-generation proprietor of New Orleans' famed Antoine's Restaurant, established in 1840; Thomy Lafon (1810–1893) – businessman, philanthropist, and human rights activist; Austin Leslie (1934–2005) – internationally famous New Orleans chef whose work defined ...
Clifford Clarence Comstock, 78, of Benton City, died Aug. 10 at home. He was born in Yamhill, Ore., and lived in the Tri-Cities for 47 years. The U.S. Navy veteran was a retired millwright at the ...
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A copy of Les Cenelles from 1845. Armand Lanusse (c. 1810 – March 16, 1868) [1] was a Creole of color, educator, poet, and writer from New Orleans, Louisiana.He is the editor of Les Cenelles (1845), a collection of poems by fellow Creoles of color in New Orleans widely considered to be the first African-American poetry anthology published in the United States. [2]