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2. Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club - Wikipedia

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   The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club (founded 1916) is a fraternal organization in New Orleans, Louisiana which puts on the Zulu parade each year on Mardi Gras Day. Zulu is New Orleans' largest predominantly African American carnival organization known for its krewe members wearing grass skirts and its unique throw of hand-painted coconuts. [1]

3. List of museums in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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   African American art, history and culture New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum: French Quarter: Religious: History and folklore of rituals, zombies, gris-gris, Voodoo Queens New Orleans Fire Department Museum: Garden District: Firefighting: Located in the Washington Avenue firehouse, open by appointment [1] [2] New Orleans Mint: French Quarter ...

4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans ...

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   Location of Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans.

5. 11 Mardi Gras Traditions You Need to Know About (from King ...

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   4. Throwing Coconuts. This cool, albeit risky, tradition was started by members of Zulu, New Orleans’s biggest predominantly Black Krewe. According to History.com, the Zulus held their first ...

6. The Historic New Orleans Collection - Wikipedia

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   Museum exhibitions have been presented on a wide variety of topics relating to the history and culture of the Gulf South region and the peoples who have influenced it, ranging from the Battle of New Orleans to the development of New Orleans cuisine to more modern subjects, such as the Sugar Bowl [2] and life after Hurricane Katrina. Many of the ...

7. Krewe - Wikipedia

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   Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club Headquarters, New Orleans, LA Invitation to the Krewe of Proteus ball, New Orleans, 1896 "Spanish Krewe" float at Springtime Tallahassee. A krewe (/ k r uː / KROO) is a social organization that stages parades and/or balls for the Carnival season.

8. In New Orleans, friends respond as virus claims a Zulu king - AOL

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   If he had died in a normal time, Larry Arthur Hammond would have had a funeral befitting a Zulu king, with more than a thousand mourners in the church and marching in second-line parades ...

9. Mardi Gras Indians - Wikipedia

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   Dancing in Congo Square, 1886. Mardi Gras Indians have been practicing their traditions in New Orleans since at least the 18th century. The colony of New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718, on land inhabited by Chitimacha Tribe, and within the first decade 5,000 enslaved Africans were trafficked to the colony.