Robert Charles riots
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The Robert Charles riots of July 24–27, 1900, in New Orleans, Louisiana, were sparked after African-American laborer Robert Charles fatally shot a white police officer during an altercation and escape
Sketch of the scene at Robert Charles' residence on the 2000 block of Fourth Street. Body in the middle is Patrolman Lamb; the body in the left background is that of Captain Day
Front page of the New Orleans Daily Picayune, July 28, 1900, after Charles was killed; picture of Noiret in center; picture at upper right is Sgt Porteus
Le Petit Journal 7 Oct 1906
Creoles of color
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The Creoles of color are a multiracial ethnic group of Louisiana Creoles that developed in the former French and Spanish colonies of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Northwestern Florida
Robert Charles riots
…had a distinct status as free people of color before the Civil War, particularly during the years of French and Spanish control. They are also known as Creoles of color. The white-dominated legislature, primarily Democrats, had passed a new state constitution in 1898 with provisions that disenfranchised most African…
Creole cartoonist George Herriman
Portrait of a Creole woman in a red tignon c. 1840, painted by Jacques Amans
Portrait of Marianne Celeste Dragon in 1795, painted by José Francisco de Salazar y Mendoza.
Barney Bigard, noted jazz clarinetist long a part of Duke Ellington's orchestra