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.
