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Mardi Gras Indians room at the Backstreet Cultural Museum
The Backstreet Cultural Museum, located in the Treme, is dedicated to preserving New Orleans' African American community-based masking and processional traditions. These include Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, and social aid and pleasure clubs.…
Backstreet Cultural Museum-exterior
The Backstreet Cultural Museum is a pillar of the Treme. Sylvester Francis can be seen far left.
Tomb of the Unknown Slave at St. Augustine Church
The Tomb of the Unknown Slave is dedicated to the "nameless, faceless, turfless Africans who met an untimely death in Faubourg Treme." The shrine "honors all slaves buried throughout the United States and those slaves in particular who lie beneath…
Placard at the Tomb of the Unknown Slave
This placard is attached to the side of St. Augustine Church.
Placard to the Buffalo Soldiers-Audubon Park
Audubon Park uptown was the activation site for the 9th Cavalry, or the Buffalo Soldiers, in 1866. The Buffalo Soldiers were also known as the "Negro Cavalry," and fought on the Western Front, earning the respect of the Plains Indians they…