African American Resources for Louisiana

Archives and Libraries

 * Louisiana State Archives
 * Manuscript Finding Aids Online at Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University
 * New Orleans Public Library (Online Collections)
 * Noel Memorial Library


 * FHL Film 1303161 Item 6

Perkins, A. E. (Archie Ebinezer), b. 1879



Burkett, Randall K., Burkett, Nancy H. (Nancy Hall), Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

History
People of Color in Lousiana: Part I Alice Dunbar-Nelson Page 361 of 361-376

Newspapers
Newspaper Webindex: The Louisiana Newspaper Project

Online Resources

 * Louisiana Death Records 1911-1956
 * Louisiana Free Slave Records,1719-1820. Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. [Database on line]Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820.
 * Louisiana Lineage Legacies
 * Louisiana National Register of Historic Places (Excellent resource with photos and history)
 * Bossier Parish Cemeteries (Find A Grave)
 * Louisiana Digital Archives
 * Freedmen's Bureau for 1865-1868 in Caddo and Bossier Parishes
 * Louisiana History and Genealogy
 * Louisiana African American Griots
 * Louisiana Archives (USGenWeb)
 * Marriage Records (Caddo &amp; Bossier Parishes)
 * Plantation Records(Caddo &amp; Bossier Parishes)
 * Louisiana Slavery
 * Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1830 - This website provides a searchable database for African-Americans from the Louisiana area.

Oral History
The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

Reconstruction
Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1868 Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 5, No. 3 (Dec., 1918) (pp. 366-368) Page Count: 3

Slavery and Freedom

 * Records Relating to Slavery, Free People of Color, and Freedmen New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division &amp; City Archives
 * Bossier Parish, Louisiana 1860 Slaveholder and 1870 African-Americans
 * Index to Slave Emancipation Petitions, 1814-1843 Louisiana. Parish Court (Orleans Parish)