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By 1900, two years after the new constitution, only 5,320 black voters were registered in the state. Because of disenfranchisement, by 1910 there were only 730 black voters (less than 0.5 percent of eligible African-American men), despite advances in education and literacy among blacks and people of color. [ 45 ]
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300. Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1450223942. Blassingame, John W. (1973). Black New Orleans, 1860–1880. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Brinkley, Douglas (2006). Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York ...
The black Louisianian population declined following migration to states including New York and California in efforts to flee Jim Crow regulations. [188] At the end of the 20th century, Louisiana's population has experienced diversification again, and its non-Hispanic or non-Latino American white population has been declining. [154]
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
The new governor, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, did not last long due to mismanagement and a lack of growth in the colony. He was recalled to France in 1716, and Bienville again took the helm as governor, serving the office for less than a year until the new governor, Jean-Michel de Lepinay, arrived from France
Louisiana [b] or French Louisiana [c] was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
By 1780, 10,000 Black people lived in New York. Many had escaped from their enslavers who lived in both northern and southern colonies. After the war, the British evacuated about 3,000 enslaved people from New York, taking most of them to resettle as free people in Nova Scotia, where they are known as Black Loyalists.
Colfax is a town in, and the parish seat of, Grant Parish, Louisiana, United States, [4] founded in 1869. Colfax is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana metropolitan area . The largely African American population of Colfax counted 1,558 at the 2010 census .