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Surviving family members hold lighted lanterns as night falls.
Remembering Victims
of violent crime were remembered recently at the White Lantern Memorial, part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities at Bayou St. John in New Orleans. The event featured remarks by
White roses are given to family members of victims of violence.
victims and
Mendez Saulsbury talks about her daughter, Jade Gibson, 31, who died Nov. 19, 2017, after being shot 17 times. She left behind three children.
survivors of crime, city and state leaders, and the lighting of lanterns to honor the memory of those lost to violence.
NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY PHOTO BY MARIE SIMONEAUX
Christina Bryant, left, and Shukrani Gray, are shown in the City Archives & Special Collections, located on the third floor of Main Library.
Oral history database preserves African Americans’ takes on life BY ROBERT S. WOLF
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Local chef and civil rights pioneer Leah Chase died in 2019, but at the New Orleans Public Library, you still can watch her discuss the struggle for civil rights during the 1960s. That’s thanks to an oral history database called The HistoryMakers that contains more than 3,000 interviews with African Ameri“All of the interviews cans from across the are fairly contemporary, U.S. who helped shape but many of the stories the country. The collection offers recount events as far a glimpse into the Afback as the 1920s. rican American experiIt offers really good ence through the perprimary source material spectives of those who for history projects and lived it. Some of those interviewed have deep research papers.” connections to New SHUKRANI GRAY, Orleans, such as Chase head of access and opportunity and music producer at the library Harold Baptiste Jr. Christina Bryant, director of the library’s City Archives & Special Collections, said this collection of African American voices is designed to preserve a slice of life that would typically be lost to history. “We chose this database because we feel the voices it represents are important, and they are important for people to hear,” Bryant said. “Oral history is a real good medium for sharing information because you get to see people explain more than just history. You get emotion, you get a unique perspective, and you get this dialogue that can’t be recreated any other way. “One aspect that attracted me to it was that it has a pretty good representation of content from New Orleans.” Other New Orleans notables included are singer
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