Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies

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Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies

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

University of New Orleans Joined Mart 2015
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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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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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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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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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...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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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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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: buff.ly/3tFgPVF

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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: buff.ly/3tFgPVF
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