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The Trail They Blazed Exhibit Opening
Date: August 29, 2024
Time: 6-8 pm
Location: Earl K. Long Library, First Floor
Description: Please join us at the opening reception for The Trail They Blazed, a traveling exhibit that tells the story of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans. Music and refreshments will be provided.
The Trail They Blazed traveling exhibition is part of the NOLA Resistance collaborative initiative, led by The Historic New Orleans Collection, to preserve and share stories from the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s–1970s. The exhibition was built collaboratively with the community that participated in the local Civil Rights Movement and those working to preserve its legacy.
Understanding how change happens—how it happened in the past and how to enact change today—can be difficult. The Trail They Blazed clarifies this process by interrogating events from the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s–1970s, asking and answering questions such as: What was the problem? Who stepped up? What did they do? How did things change? With this framework, the exhibition will encourage visitors to think critically about how change happens and provide examples from this era to help create a roadmap for future activism.
Exhibition organized by The Historic New Orleans Collection.This exhibit is being hosted at the University of New Orleans through a partnership between the Earl K. Long Library, the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, the Justice Studies PhD Program, and the Neighborhood Story Project.
Thanks to Dr. Sebastian Figueroa and Dr. Roberto Barrios for this incredible online conversation!
Thanks to the Progressive Black Student Union for organizing this event and inviting us to participate. Justice Studies is honored to support UNO's student activists!
In Spring 2024, Justice Studies presents our keynote lecture, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and many community partners, our "Co-Lab" conversation series in partnership with the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, and a number of events on labor and economic justice.
In conjunction with the collaborative exhibit, "Don't Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans," please join us starting at 6pm at 1725 Baronne St. for the following panel discussions and community events:
More information to come!
The culmination of years of community-university research led by the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice. Join us as we reflect on the past, present, and future of Black-led labor organizing in the Crescent City. Featuring the beautiful art of the one and only Langson Allston!
March 14, 2024, 5pm to 9pm, 1725 Baronne St
Stay tuned for additional events related to the exhibit:
A collaboration with labor activists and scholars in New Orleans, and part of a nationwide movement of labor teach-ins and activities:
Monroe Hall 610, Loyola University, New Orleans
With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Program in Justice Studies and our partners presents Dr. Andrew Jolivette, professor and chair of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Andrew Jolivette
hosted by Monique Verdin
in conversation with the Center for Racial Justice at Dillard University
Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 6:00pm, Stern Hall 112, Dillard University
Co-sponsored by Atakapa-Ishak Nation SWLA, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, Neighborhood Story Project, Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange, Bvlbancha Liberation Radio, the Louisiana Creole Research Association, and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University
Presented in collaboration with the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies
Thursday, February 29, 2024
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Midlo Center, Earl K. Long Library 304
