Showcasing Louisiana: Profiles in Black History
Showcasing Louisiana: Profiles in Black History By Rick Portier | February 17, 2021 at 5:09 PM CST - Updated February 17 at 9:51 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Wind howls through a tattered curtain that acts as a door. It is the weathered entrance to a story that was almost lost to time.
Joseph Dunn crosses the rickety floorboards as he began to tell
Edouardâs story. âWeâre probably in a building that Edouard, at one point, walked through, or maybe even lived in.â Wind howls through a tattered curtain that acts as a door. It is the weathered entrance to a story that was almost lost to time. (Source: WAFB)
SUMMARY
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was a Massachusetts state legislator (1849–1853), a ten-term United States Congressman (1853–1857, 1865–1873, 1875–1879, 1889–1891), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1856–1857), governor of Massachusetts (1858–1861), and a Union general during the American Civil War (1861–1865). One of the most prominent political generals of the conflict, Banks lacked military talent and experience but rose to high command on the strength of his public stature and his staunch support of the administration of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, despite having been one of Lincoln’s political rivals in 1860. Banks’s tendency to subordinate military affairs to political ambition, his penchant for grandiose planning without devoting sufficient attention to tactical details, and his inability to admit or correct mistakes ensured that a once-promising career in arms would fall short of expectations. As commander of the Department of the Shenand
Black Soldiers, Blue Uniforms: African Americans in the Civil War
African American men joined the Union ranks to escape slavery, destroy the Confederacy, prove their loyalty to the United States, and pursue their dreams of freedom and citizenship for black Americans.
Here s What You Need to Know: Although several overzealous Union Army field commanders organized African Americans into ad hoc militia units early in 1862 and several black regiments were mustered into service later that year, it wasn’t until after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, that the federal government began actively recruiting and enlisting black soldiers and sailors.
February is
Black History Month, it’s something that no American of any race, color, or creed should forget. African Americans, the decendants of slaves and slaves themselves fought for freedom that was only at best was in the
promissory note of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Those men, and women in the case of Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth, paved the way for freedom for African Americans and all others who benefited from what they fought for: women, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and other Hispanics, Asian Americans, and LGBTQ Americans.
That promise being made then, must be kept today, to the descendents of this men, as well as all who benefited through their sacrifice: even the Southern Whites who at the time did not know then, or all too often today, that they too needed emancipation.
Portion of LA 67 will be closed for âextended period of timeâ due to overturned tanker truck, police say Troopers with the Louisiana State Police say a portion of LA 67 will remain closed for an extended period of time due to an incident involving an overturned tanker trailer Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. (Source: Louisiana State Police) By WAFB Staff | January 18, 2021 at 3:53 PM CST - Updated January 18 at 3:53 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Troopers with Louisiana State Police say a portion of LA 67 in East Baton Rouge Parish is closed due to an incident involving an overturned tanker truck Monday, Jan. 18.
The portion of LA 67 that is currently closed is south of Port Hudson-Pride Road. Police say the roadway will be closed for âan extended period of time.â