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 LSU 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.
