437. Mary Niall Mitchell

<div>437. We <a href="http://archive.org/download/437-mary-niall-mitchell/437--Mary_Niall_Mitchell.mp3" target="_blank">talk</a> to Mary Niall Mitchell about her research into Civil War pictures of freed slave children. Union forces used pictures of white slave children who had been freed in New Orleans as propaganda and to raise money for schools for freed slave children.&nbsp; Mary&nbsp;Niall&nbsp;Mitchell is Raphael Cassimere Professor of History, Interim Ethel &amp; Herman L. Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies,&nbsp; and Director of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. She is the author of&nbsp;<i>Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery&nbsp;</i>(NYU Press, 2008) and has published line for<i> </i><i>Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic,</i> the<i> </i><i>Washington Post, </i>the <i>New York Times</i>, and<i>&nbsp;Commonplace.</i> Mitchell is one of five lead historians for&nbsp;<a href="http://freedomonthemove.org/" target="_blank">Freedomonthemove.org</a>, a collaborative crowdsourced database of fugitive slave advertisements housed at Cornell University.<ol type="a"><li>This week in Louisiana history. October 2, 1965. Edwin Edwards wins his run for 7th District Congressman. </li><li>This week in New Orleans history. St. Patrick's Church (the second oldest church parish of New Orleans) along with St. Louis Cathedral (the oldest) held the first masses after Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, October 2, 2005. St Patrick's was founded in 1833. The current church at 724 Camp Street was completed in 1840.<br /> </li><li>This week in Louisiana. <br /> <a href="https://zwolletamalefiesta.com/">Zwolle Tamale Fiesta</a><br /> October 08, 2021 - October 10, 2021 <br /> 1100 S Main Street<br /> Zwolle LA 71486<br /> The Zwolle Tamale Fiesta celebrates the rich Spanish and