Manuscript Collections and Archives
Amistad Research Center, Tulane Univeristy, New Orleans, Louisiana. Charles Barthelmy Roussève Papers
Nils R. Douglas Papers
Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana. Louisiana and Special Collection
Supreme Court of Louisiana Collection
Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Williams Research Collection, the Historic New Orleans Collection.
Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. William O. Rogers Collection
Published Primary Sources
Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien. Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits. Translated and edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. Originally published as Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire. Montreal, Canada: Arbor & Dupont, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1911.
Houzeau, Jean-Charles. My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune. Edited by David Rankin and Translated by Gerald F. Denaut. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
Warmoth, Henry Clay. War, Politics and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana. New York: Macmillan, 1930.
Unpublished Primary Sources
Board of Directors. History of the Catholic Indigent Orphan Institute. New Orleans: Board of Directors, 1917. CBRP, ARC, TU.
Douglas, Nils R. Who Was Louis A. Martinet. Unpublished and undated. NRDP, ARC, TU.
Mathew, John. Journal. Unpublished. WRC, HNOC.
The Orleans Parish School Board Minutes. 1867-1869, 1875-79, LSC, UNO.
Rogers, William O. Scrapbook, 1868-1878. Unpublished. LRC, TU.
Periodicals
Black Republican Daily Picayune New Orleans Bulletin New Orleans Republican New Orleans Times New Orleans Tribune Tri-Weekly Advocate Weekly Louisianian
State Government Educational Records and Publications
Department of the Gulf. Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen for the Year 1864. New Orleans: The Office of the True Delta, 1865.
Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Public Schools, City of New Orleans, for the Year Closing March 31st, 1868. New Orleans: Stetson & Armstrong, Stationers and Printers.
New Orleans: A. L. Lee State Printer, 1869.
Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education for 1869, to the General Assembly of Louisiana, January 1870. New Orleans: A. L. Lee State Printer, 1870.
Report of the Secretary of the Board of Directors for Public Schools of the City of New Orleans, December 1871. New Orleans, 1871.
Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education, Thomas W. Conway to the General Assembly of Louisiana; for the Year 1871, Session of 1872. New Orleans: The Republican Office, 1872.
Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education, William G. Brown, to the General Assembly of Louisiana; for the Year 1872, Session of 1873. New Orleans: The Republican Office, 1873.
Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education, William G. Brown to the General Assembly of Louisiana, for the Year 1873, Session of 1874. New Orleans: The Republican Office, 1874.
Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Education, William G. Brown to the General Assembly of Louisiana, for the Year 1874, Session of 1875. New Orleans: The Republican Office, 1875.
Annual Reports of the State Superintendent of Public Education, William G. Brown, to the General Assembly of Louisiana, for the Year 1875, Session of 1876. New Orleans: The Republican Office, 1876.
Report of Joint Committee of Investigation of the Department of Education to the General Assembly, Session of 1878. New Orleans: The Office at the Democrat, 1878.
Annual Reports of the State Superintendent of Public Education for Louisiana, and of the Chief Superintendent of Public Schools of the City of New Orleans, for the Year 1878. New Orleans: The Democrat Publishing Company, 1879.
Other State Government Records and Publications
Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention, for framing a Constitution for the State of Louisiana. New Orleans: J. B. Roudanez & Co. Printers to the Convention, 1867-1868.
Debates of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, Session of 1870. New Orleans: Republican Office, 1870.
Testimony Taken by the Select Committee to Investigate the Condition of Affairs in the State of Louisiana. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1872.
Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Louisiana, Held in New Orleans, Monday April 21, 1879. New Orleans: J. H. Cosgrove, 1879.
Court Cases
C. S. Sauvinet v. Joseph A. Walker. 27 La. Ann. 14, 1875.
Trévigne v. School Board and W. O. Rogers. 31 La. Ann. 0105, 1879, SCLC, UNO. Bertenneau v. Board of Directors of City Schools et al. 3 Woods, 177, 1878.
Ursin Dellande v. City School Board. No. 9784, 1878, SCLC, UNO.
Online Sources
Ancestry.com
New Orleans Notarial Archives. “Louis A. Martinet Records: Bibliographical Sketch.” http://www.notarialarchives.org/martinet.htm.
Charles H. Jones, ed. and complied, Appleton’s Hand-Book of American Travel, Southern Tour, 1873, The University of Texas Libraries,
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Berry, Mary F. “Negro Troops in Blue and Gray: The Louisiana Native Guards, 1861-1863,” Louisiana History, 8, no. 2, 1967: 165-90.
Blassingame, John W. “The Union Army as an Educational Institution for Negroes, 1862-1865,” The Journal of Negro Education, 34, no. 2, 1965: 152-59.
Crouch, Barry A. “Black Education in Civil War and Reconstruction Louisiana: George T. Ruby, the Army, and the Freedmen’s Bureau.” Louisiana History, 38, no. 3, 1997: 287-308.
Dunbar, Alice Nelson. “People of Color in Louisiana: Part I.” The Journal of Negro History. 1, no. 4, 1916: 367-76.
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Theses and Dissertations
Beasley, Leon. “A History of Education in Louisiana during the Reconstruction.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1957.
Breaux, Peter J. “William G. Brown and the Development of Education: A Retrospective on the Career of a State Superintendent of Public Education of African Descent in
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Daggett, Melissa. “Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in
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