Forgetting and Misremembering Black Life in Louisiana Through Civil Rights: The McDonough Three & Ruby Bridges

At the Opelousas Museum on Saturday, September 19, 1:00 PM, Dr. Theodore R. Foster III will discuss how the making of the Louisiana civil rights trail reproduces broader problems with remembering the modern civil rights movement through tourism, racial icons, popular images, individual names and events. The talk asks, what genres of black life fall in and out of the narrative of civil rights then and now…in Louisiana and beyond?” Learn more.

This program is supported by an LEH Rebirth Grant.