Untold Facts

Who knew about this ?

Sanité Bélair
Haitian Revolution
Tiger of the Revolution
Creole history
Louisiana Creole
New Orleans Creole
Saint-Domingue
Toussaint Louverture
Haiti independence
Black revolutionaries
Black women in history
women warriors
Napoleon and Haiti
French colonialism
Black resistance
Creole identity
1809 New Orleans refugees
Caribbean history

Nobody talks about this

Washerwomen Strike
1866 washerwomen strike
Jackson Mississippi washerwomen
Black women labor history
Black women strikes
Black labor movement
Reconstruction history
post Civil War South
formerly enslaved women
laundry workers strike
domestic workers history
Black women organizers
Southern labor history
early labor unions
Black women resistance
fair wages
standard wages
women-led labor strike
Black working class history
invisible labor
freedom after slavery
Reconstruction era
labor rights
Black domestic workers
history of strikes

I wish I knew about this

Rose Nicaud
New Orleans coffee culture
Black Creole history
Creole women entrepreneurs
French Market New Orleans
café au lait history
Black women in business
enslaved entrepreneur
formerly enslaved women
New Orleans street vendors
marchandes New Orleans
Black female vendors
freedom through business
Black entrepreneurship
Louisiana Creole history
French Quarter history
New Orleans history
Black business history
women vendors
market women
Code Noir
Sunday market
coffee stand
Black women’s labor
hidden history

Stories weren’t taught

Trapper Women of 1927
1927 Mississippi Flood
Great Mississippi River Flood
Caernarvon levee explosion
Caernarvon levee dynamite
St. Bernard Parish flood
Plaquemines Parish flood
Louisiana flood history
New Orleans flood history
women of the marsh
marsh women
trapper communities
Louisiana trappers
Isleño history
Creole history
Cajun history
Louisiana bayou history
pirogue rescue
levee camps
flood refugees
government abandonment
political sacrifice
Black and Creole history
Louisiana disaster history
forgotten women in history
Southern history

History we weren’t taught

Homer Plessy
Plessy v Ferguson
Plessy vs Ferguson
separate but equal
Comité des Citoyens
Citizens Committee New Orleans
Afro-Creole history
Creole civil rights
New Orleans civil rights
Louisiana segregation
Separate Car Act
planned arrest
civil rights test case
1892 New Orleans
1896 Supreme Court
Supreme Court segregation
Jim Crow laws
racial segregation
Black legal resistance
Reconstruction aftermath
civil rights history
Creole activists
American legal history
Black history
forgotten history
Homer Plessy arrest
Afro-Creole professionals
anti-segregation movement
Louisiana train car segregation




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Nobody talks about this.

Norbert Rillieux
Rillieux evaporator
multiple-effect evaporator
vacuum evaporator
Creole engineer
Black inventor
Black engineer
enslaved-born inventor
New Orleans inventor
Louisiana sugar industry
sugar refining history
sugar plantation history
Jamaica Train sugar
chemical engineering history
father of chemical engineering
Black chemical engineer
sugar barons
Louisiana sugar coast
slavery and sugar
plantation economy
American inventions
industrial revolution in sugar
Creole history
New Orleans history
Black history
forgotten inventors
hidden Black history
antebellum Louisiana
sugar crystals
boiling cane juice

History we should have been taught

Basile Barès, Basile Bares, Afro-Creole composer, Black classical composer, enslaved composer, New Orleans music history, Creole music history, Black music history, nineteenth century New Orleans, published while enslaved, French Quarter music, Perier Music Emporium, Louisiana history, hidden Black history, forgotten composers, American music history, Black artistry, slavery and music, untold history

No body talks about this

Charles Deslondes, German Coast uprising, 1811 slave revolt, largest slave revolt in America, Louisiana slave revolt, New Orleans history, hidden Black history, forgotten history, American history, slavery resistance, enslaved rebels, freedom fighters, plantation rebellion, German Coast rebellion, Black resistance, untold history

Who has hard of this governor?

Oscar Dunn, first Black lieutenant governor, Black history, hidden history, forgotten history, Reconstruction, Louisiana history, American history, untold history, Black politicians, post Civil War South, political mystery, mysterious death, freedmen, universal suffrage, integrated schools, Reconstruction politics

Watch this before they remove it

Louis Martinet, Louis A Martinet, The Crusader newspaper, Black newspaper history, Black press, Plessy v Ferguson, Homer Plessy, Comité des Citoyens, Citizens Committee, Jim Crow, Separate Car Act, Louisiana history, New Orleans history, civil rights history, hidden Black history, Reconstruction era, post-Reconstruction, Black resistance, legal resistance, media resistance, untold history