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During a large-scale epidemic of yellow fever, the city of Shreveport lost one-quarter of its population within twelve weeks, from August 21 to November 18, 1873. [1] The original humanitarian response was led by Jean Pierre, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Shreveport, Louisiana), and his assistant, Isidore Quémerais.
Louisiana was named after ... From 1932 to 2010 the state lost 1,800 ... and global markets and to provide a high quality of life for the people of Louisiana." ...
Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862. After the defeat of the Confederate Army in 1865, Louisiana would enter the Reconstruction era (1865
The long lost headstone of World War II veteran Jasper P. Kimble was at the former Gonzaque Williams Mortuary in downtown Alexandria where it had been for the past 15 years.
Both blacks and whites lost good-paying work, and many people left. After the third black man had been fatally shot by whites within a few months, on September 23–24, 1988, there was rioting in black neighborhoods after charges were reduced for a defendant in a case of a young white woman fatally shooting a David McKinney, a black man who ...
The name stuck and was added to state license plates beginning in 1955. ... the population of The Last Frontier was just 1.3 people per square mile in 2020. ... the year after Louisiana joined the ...
Pierre Le Moyne was born in July 1661 at Fort Ville-Marie (now Montreal), in the French colony of Canada, the third son [1] of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay, a native of Dieppe or of Longueuil near Dieppe, Normandy in France and lord of Longueuil in Canada, and of Catherine Thierry [] (called Catherine Primot in some sources) from Rouen.
After unsuccessful electoral races in 1959 and 1963, he became the first black member of the Louisiana State Legislature since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1967 to represent a district in New Orleans' Uptown neighborhood. He ran for an at-large position on New Orleans' City Council in 1969 and 1970, and lost narrowly.