Episode 3
What Plantation Museum Tours Don’t Tell You
Reconstruction
New Orleans Times Picayune.
May 13, 1898.
Primary Sources in this episode:
Grace King, New Orleans: The Place and The People. New York: MacMillan Co. 1895. Read on Google Books
“Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),” National Archives: Milestone Documents. Accessed April 22, 2022. Read Synopsis
New Orleans’ Louisiana Weekly
“National Memorial Marks Thibodaux Mass Shooting.” May 29, 2018.
Historical newspapers / periodicals in this episode:
Times Picayune. November 24, 1887.
New Orleans Daily Democrat. April 7, 1880.
Louisiana Sugar Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. Vol XXXII No. 10. (175-177) Read on Google Books
Destrehan's Emile Rost served as President of the LSPA for decades. For Reconstruction Era Black History:
Dale Somers, “Black and White in New Orleans: A Study in Urban Race Relations, 1865-1900,” The Journal of Southern History 40, No. 1. (February 1974): 19-42. Read on JSTOR
Louisiana State University Libraries. “Legacies: Louisiana’s '‘Creoles of Color’ After the Civil War.” Read Blog
For Politics of Reconstruction & the Progressive Era:
George E. Cunningham, “The Italian, a Hindrance to White Solidarity in Louisiana, 1890-1898,” The Journal of Negro History 50, No. 1. (January 1965): 22-36. Read on JSTOR
James T. Moore, “Redeemers Reconsidered: Change and Continuity in the Democratic South, 1870-1900,” The Journal of Southern History 44, No. 3. (August 1978): 357-378. Read on JSTOR
In 1965, historian George Cunningham wrote an article about class, race, and ethnic hybridity and collaboration, no doubt as an argument for his own time & the passage of the Civil Rights Act.For more about the Thibodaux Massacre:
Calvin Schermerhorn, “The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades.” Smithsonian Magazine. November 21, 2017. Read Article
KC Washington, “The Thibodaux Massacre (November 23, 1887).” Black Past, March 11, 2019. Read Article