Turry Flucker and Phoenix Savage - African Americans of New Orleans
05/19/2010 6:00 pm
05/19/2010 7:30 pm
Join us for a booksigning and presentation featuring Turry Flucker and Poenix Savage celebrating the release of African Americans of New Orleans, a pictoral history including more than 200 vintage photographs.
Highlights include:
- Louis Armstrong, the fighting men of the Louisiana Native Guard, Ernest "Dutch" Morial and many other African Americans who contributed to the growth and development of New Orleans
- Images of antebellum period through modern day Civil Rights movement
- Social Aide and Pleasure Clubs, African American Carnival (Mardi Gras), Treme’ neighborhood on Claiborne Ave., Xavier Preparatory School, Mardi Gras Indians and the culinary history of New Orleans are all touched upon
Turry Flucker is the division director of the civil rights branch of the Louisiana State Museum and is a graduate of Tougaloo College. Flucker resides in New Orleans.
Phoenix Savage, a native of Philadelphia, maintains an active exhibition schedule as a sculptress and currently lives in Atlanta.
African Americans of New Orleans (Paperback)
$21.99
ISBN-13: 9780738566450Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC), 4/2010
Location:
- Street:
- Octavia Books
- Additional:
- 513 Octavia St
- City:
- New Orleans ,
- Province:
- Louisiana
- Postal Code:
- 70115-2055
- Country:
- United States
