Reconstruction in Louisiana

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For Students: Button graphic reading “For Students” above a black-and-white engraving of a crowd gathered outside burning wooden buildings, with heavy smoke and flames filling the background.For Teachers: Button graphic reading “For Teachers” above a historic black-and-white photograph of a group of men in white aprons standing outside a market building.

 

A man in a blue polo shirt stands beside the Plessy v. Ferguson historical marker in New Orleans. Large white text across the bottom reads, “FOR WALKING TOUR.”

 

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