Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies

Promoting understanding of our city’s history and culture, with an emphasis on civil rights, through scholarship, programming, and digital humanities projects.

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We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team! Click the link below to learn more.

For questions or more information send us an email at [email protected].
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We can't believe Jane's Freedom has been out in the world for two months!

Click through to see more from the comic and many thanks to the @true_fiktion team for bringing her story to life!
https://t.co/ow0SjCZDRy

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last weekend for the launch of Jane's Freedom with Chris Walker and @ryanodagawa from the @true_fiktion team!

Stop by the Community Book Center to pick up your own free, signed copy while supplies last!

2523 Bayou Rd, New Orleans, LA 70119

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Big thanks to Sandy Rosenthal, founder of @LeveesOrg and the Flooded House Museum, for speaking with Dr. Mitchell‘s public history course last night. We had a great conversation about the links between activism, historical research, memory, and public outreach.

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Happening tomorrow! Please join us if you're in the New Orleans area!

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We are excited to announce the launch of Jane's Freedoms next Saturday 10/15, a comic that tells the story of a self-liberating enslaved woman from New Orleans. Jane's story is drawn from our work on @fotmproject, a crowdsourced digital archive of runaway slave advertisements.

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And stay tuned for more on the project in the coming weeks. Special thanks to the team @true_fiktion for their fantastic work bringing this to life!

[Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies @MidloCenter]

We are excited to announce the launch of Jane's Freedoms next Saturday 10/15, a comic that tells the story of a self-liberating enslaved woman from New Orleans. Jane's story is drawn from our work on @fotmproject, a crowdsourced digital archive of runaway slave advertisements.

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Please join us next weekend in New Orleans to celebrate! Meet the folks behind the comic and hear more about the project at NOAAM, and come to the Community Book Center that night for our official launch party. Free comics available at both events.

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Join us for the annual Michael Mizell-Nelson Memorial Lecture with a presentation from Brent Leggs, Senior Vice President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Executive Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.

Free and open to the public!

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Dr. Hall remained a researcher and writer while living with her son and daughter-in-law in Guanajuato, Mexico in recent years. May she rest in peace and in power. (6/6)

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We are saddened to learn today of the passing of Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (1929-2022). The Midlo Center at UNO is indebted to Dr. Hall for many things. She was instrumental in founding the Center, named for and funded by her parents, Ethel & Herman L. Midlo. (1/6)

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...that kept women from positions of leadership and careers of their own. In 1964, she co-wrote with her husband Harry Hall (also known as Harry Haywood), influential essays published and distributed by revolutionary African American activists. (5/6)

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Michael Esealuka of @HealthyGulf layouts direct connections between historic cemeteries, Black homeownership, and environmental issues in Louisiana. The Midlo Center looks forward to collaborating with Healthy Gulf on research efforts in the future!
https://t.co/lqqTaOzrD3

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A historic day for New Orleans and the @NOLACityCouncil — a formal apology for the UpStairs Lounge fire response and approval of funds for the relocation of the Residents of #GordonPlaza. With gratitude to the many determined advocates who made these things happen.

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Thank you to everyone who came out the celebrate Juneteenth at NOAAM this past weekend and contributed to artist Cely Tapplette Pedescleaux's collaborative quilt. The quilt incorporated advertisements from @fotmproject containing information about pre-Civil War freedom seekers.

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Midlo Center Dir. Mary Niall Mitchell shared the latest updates on @fotmproject, the upcoming Juneteenth celebration at the New Orleans African American Museum, and our recent K-12 student showcase at @SciHighNOLA, on the latest edition of @WWNO's LA Considered. @UofNO #UNOProud

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Today on @LAConsidered, we’ve dedicated our entire show to Juneteenth! Tune in at 7:30 to learn about Freedom on the Move, an online database that uses old newspaper clippings to retell the stories of those who escaped from slavery. Or listen here: https://t.co/CwSHDkYjQX

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Today on @LAConsidered, we’ve dedicated our entire show to Juneteenth! Tune in at 7:30 to learn about Freedom on the Move, an online database that uses old newspaper clippings to retell the stories of those who escaped from slavery. Or listen here: https://t.co/CwSHDkYjQX