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ENLS-5010-01 English Capstone Seminar, Colored Conventions Project: 1865 State Convention of the Colored People of Louisiana, New Orleans, January 9-14

Colored Conventions Research at Tulane

Directly From the Convention

Letter from Chief Justice Chase to a Committee of Colored Men in New Orleans 1865

New Orleans newspapers

The Daily Picayune
Call Number: Offsite Depository (Contact Louisiana Research Collection) AP2.N49 D357
Publication Date: 1837-1914
The Daily Picayune (electronic)
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 1861-1899
New Orleans Tribune
Call Number: Jones Hall Louisiana Research Collection AP2.N49 T752
Publication Date: 1864-69
New Orleans Tribune 1864-1870 (electronic)
Call Number: online
The Black Republican (electronic) by New Orleans La. : Black Republican Newspaper Association
Publication Date: April 15, 1865

Primary Sources from 1865

My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune by Jean-Charles Houzeau; David C. Rankin (Editor); Gerard F. Denault (Translator); Amy Freidlander (Contribution by); Dan T. Carter (Contribution by); A. D. Mayo (Contribution by)
Call Number: Available at Jones Hall Louisiana Research Collection PN 4874 .H68 A3613 2001
ISBN: 0807126896
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Proceedings of the convention of the Republican Party of Louisiana, held at Economy Hall, New Orleans, September 25, 1865, and of the Central Executive Committee of the Friends of Universal Suffrage of Louisiana now" (e-resource) by Republican Party (La.). Convention
Call Number: online
Publication Date: 1865

Louisiana Freedmen's Bureau 1865

Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Louisiana in 1865 (ebook)
Publication Date: 1865
Proceedings of the Black State conventions, 1840-1865 by Philip Sheldon Foner 1910-1994.; George E Walker (George Elizur), 1947-
Call Number: Howard-Tilton Stacks E 184.5 .P75 - 3rd Floor
Publication Date: 1979-1980

Key Secondary Sources (books)

Black Legislators in Louisiana During Reconstruction (ebook) by Charles Vincent
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9780809385812
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Southern Negroes, 1861-1865. by Bell Irvin Wiley 1906-1980.
Call Number: Howard-Tilton Stacks E 185.2 .W65 1965 - 3rd Floor
Publication Date: 1965
Black New Orleans, 1860-1880 by John W. Blassingame 1940-
Call Number: Jones Hall Louisiana Research Collection (Reference) F 379 .N59 B42
Publication Date: 1973

Black New Orleans, 1860-1880

The Fire of Freedom by David S. Cecelski
Call Number: Howard-Tilton Stacks E540.N3 C37 2012
ISBN: 9780807835661
Publication Date: 2012-09-29
Crucible of Reconstruction by Ted Tunnell
Call Number: Jones Hall Louisiana Research Collection F 375 .T86 1984
ISBN: 0807111813
Publication Date: 1984-12-01
Rethinking the Judicial Settlement of Reconstruction by Pamela Brandwein
Call Number: Howard-Tilton Stacks KF4757 .B655 2011 - 3rd Floor
ISBN: 9780521887717
Publication Date: 2011-02-21
Nos hommes et notre histoire; notices biographiques accompagnées de reflexions et de souvenirs personnels, hommage à la population créole, en souvenir des grands hommes qu'elle a produits et des bonnes choses qu'elle a accomplies, by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes
Call Number: Jones Hall Louisiana Research Collection 976.3 (326.92) D449n
Publication Date: 1911
Our people and our history : a tribute to the Creole people of color in memory of the great men they have given us and of the good works they have accomplished by Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes
Call Number: F380 .C9 D4713
Publication Date: 1873
There Is a River: the Black struggle for freedom in America by Vincent Harding
Call Number: Howard-Tilton Stacks Call Number: E185.615.H28
ISBN: 015189342X
Publication Date: 1981-10-01
In 1864, "the black journalists of New Orleans had indeed been among those who recently formed the Union Radical Association in the black community. In response to the charge of radicalism, L'Union had declared: "Radical methods get at the root, at the source of the problem . . ." (p. 256)

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Key Secondary Sources (articles)

Demands of the New Orleans Free Colored Population for Political Equality, 1862-1865

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