Friday, October 3, 2014

October 4, 1864---Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez (1823-1890)



OCTOBER 4, 1864:            

The New Orleans Tribune, America’s first African-American owned daily newspaper, begins bilingual publication (in English and French) in New Orleans. Its publisher, Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez (1823-1890), a successful physician, used the newspaper to champion abolition, universal suffrage, desegregation and black property rights. Dr. Roudanez was the son of a French merchant and a free black woman. Although he was identified as “white” on his baptismal certificate, Dr. Roudanez identified with his mother’s people all his life. Educated in Paris, he lived most of his life in New Orleans.


On this same day, the National Convention of Colored Freemen, meeting in Syracuse, New York, adopts “The Bill of Wrongs and Rights.”


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