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John Sidney Garrett (1921–2005), former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Claiborne Parish; Jim Garrison (1921–1992), former New Orleans district attorney; later a state judge; Robert T. Garrity Jr. (born 1949), former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Jefferson Parish; Kevin Gates (born 1986), rapper
Through 1948 black people in Louisiana continued to be essentially disfranchised, with only 1% of those eligible managing to vote. [50] Schools and public facilities continued to be segregated. Civil Rights movement (1950–1970)
H. Garland Dupré, attorney and politician; Speaker of the Louisiana House 1908–1910; U.S. representative from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, 1910–1924; Frank Burton Ellis, attorney, politician, federal judge; Albert Estopinal, former U.S. representative and member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature
Huey Pierce Long Jr. was born on August 30, 1893, near Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish. [1] Although Long often told followers he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.
Map of North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (part of the international Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763)). The Flag of French Louisiana. Through both the French and Spanish (late 18th century) regimes, parochial and colonial governments used the term Creole for ethnic French and Spanish people born in the New World.
François Xavier Martin (1762–1846) – jurist and author, the first Attorney General of State of Louisiana, and longtime Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court; John Willis Menard. John Willis Menard (1838–1893) – U.S. Congressman [120] Ernest Nathan Morial (1929–1989) – political figure and leading civil rights advocate [121]
Louisiana is home to large Creole and Cajun populations, whose influences can be found in the gumbo pot. The Cajuns, French colonists who were exiled from present-day Nova Scotia, settled in ...
The Historic Indian Tribes of Louisiana: From 1542 to the Present Louisiana This page was last edited on 29 December 2024, at 22:24 (UTC). Text is available ...