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Reception to Celebrate the Homecoming of the Roudanez Papers, Saturday, February 24, 2024 5:00PM

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Saturday, February 24, 2024 5:00PM

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Reception to Celebrate the Homecoming of the Roudanez Papers

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Portrait of Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez; ca. 1857; daguerreotype; gift of Mark Charles Roudané, 2017.0201 L’Union (detail); October 31, 1857; gift of Elizabeth L. Franklin, 2003.0080.4Immediately following the 2024 History Symposium
520 Royal Street

The symposium reception celebrates the homecoming of the papers of Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez (1823–1890), the Creole physician and newspaperman who cofounded the South’s first Black newspaper, L’Union, in New Orleans in 1862. THNOC recently acquired Roudanez’s collection of essays and family papers and brought them home to Louisiana. These significant documents provide firsthand testimony of the early struggle for African American civil rights in the state, and they are now available to the local community at THNOC.

The symposium’s keynote address will survey the life and legacy of Roudanez. At the reception following the daylong event, we’ll toast the return of the papers and enjoy performances by OperaCréole.

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Above: Portrait of Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez; ca. 1857; daguerreotype; gift of Mark Charles Roudané, 2017.0201 L’Union (detail); October 31, 1857; gift of Elizabeth L. Franklin, 2003.0080.4