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Dooky Chase’s Restaurant Gets First Marker on Louisiana Civil Rights Trail Meghan Overdeep © Provided by Southern Living Bill Sherman/Office of Louisiana Lt. Governor The Louisiana Office of Tourism installed the first of many markers on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail Monday.   Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser and the Chase family were on hand for the reveal of a six-foot-tall steel silhouette of a protestor erected outside Dooky Chase s Restaurant, the world-famous New Orleans eatery that served as a safe meeting place for civil rights workers. Dooky Chase s Restaurant in Tremé, the nation s oldest African-American neighborhood, welcomed activists to Creole cuisine and a secret upstairs meeting room where extensive strategizing took place, the trail s website says of the historic restaurant.

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