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Saturday, May 03, 2008

You gotta fight for your right to Second Line

I was looking for some info on the Second Line parade permit flap (a controversy so parochial it is difficult to even explain to people outside of New Orleans). And I ran across this film Tribeca Film Festival 2008: Documentary Covers New Orleans's Civil Rights Legacy from the New York Tribeca Film Festival. The actual film web site is at: Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Looks like Wynton Marsalis is the producer. The history of race relations in New Orleans is a fascinating story but tends to get lumped in with the rest of the national MLK saga. But the situation in New Orleans was very different, partially because of the 'creole' and mixed-race citizens who did not fit into the black / white categories of Jim Crow.

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