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Standing Up on River Road: Activism in South Louisiana

Project

Tribute to the NOLA Community

Due to the pandemic, the Climates of Inequality exhibit will not be traveling to New Orleans. Our partners at the University of New Orleans created this powerful tribute video as a thank you to everyone they worked with in the NOLA community.

Projects

Field Notes: Interview with Eve Butler

Field Notes: Voicemail from Leila Blackbird

Field Notes: Letter from "Joseph Lopez"

Tribute to the NOLA Community

Endangered Cemeteries of South Louisiana

Oral History with Shannon Rainey, Gordon Plaza

History of Gordon Plaza

No Gardens, Eve Butler, Women of Cancer Alley series

That Place Was Home, Iris Carter, Women of Cancer Alley series

Bayou Bridge Pipeline: Stories of Defending Water & Culture (trailer)

The Landscape of Community Resistance on the Mississippi River with historian Leon A. Waters

Bayou Bridge Pipeline

Reenacting a Slave Rebellion

Brett Anderson’s “Louisiana Loses its Boot”

Why Louisiana Stays Poor

TriPod, “Desire, Louisiana”

Resistance Radio, “Gordon Plaza”

Resistance Radio, “Gordon Plaza II: But Here We Are Still Fighting”

Gordon Plaza Tour on New Orleans Historical

Our Town, Our Fight, Shamell and Sharon Lavigne, Women of Cancer Alley series

Contributors

University Partners

University of New Orleans

Faculty Project Director
Mary Niall Mitchell

Project Assistant
Justine D'Ooge

Students
Leila Blackbird
August Darbonne
Lones Gagnard III
Vickie LaCoste
Daniel Lamplugh
Shelby Loyacano
Ella McIntire
Katheryn O’Dwyer
Jenidza Rivera
Katie Vest
Elizabeth Williams

Community Partners

The Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Genevieve M. Butler
Anne Rolfes

Hidden History

Leon A. Waters

New Orleans People's Assembly

Angela Kinlaw
Shannon Rainey
Marilyn Amar