Before the Civil War, free people of color made up a higher proportion of the population in New Orleans than anywhere else in the United States. Kim Coleman, 29, a curator at the museum whose ...

Making Race, Remembering Freedom: Constructing Racialized Liberty -- Colonial Liberties, Colonial Constraints: Defining Freedom in Early North Carolina -- Debating Freedom: The Radical War against ...

As the first Catholic pope from the United States, Pope Leo XIV has an ancestry that traces back to the Creole and free people of color from Louisiana, illustrating complex and interconnected issues ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The St. Louis Cathedral ...

People of color in Louisiana / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Marcus Christian's treatment of Les gens de couleur libre / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Plaçage and the Louisiana Gens de couleur libre : how ...

The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the remains of upward of 22,000 enslaved and free people of color, the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia, established in ...

Before the Civil War, free people of color made up a higher proportion of the population in New Orleans than anywhere else in the United States. Descendants Tell Stories of Free People of Color NEW ...