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Dooky Chase Restaurant is the site of Louisianaâs first Civil Rights Trail marker
Dooky Chase Restaurant added as part of Louisiana s new Civil Rights Trail By Sabrina Wilson | May 3, 2021 at 6:36 PM CDT - Updated May 3 at 6:37 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Inside the world-renowned Dooky Chase Restaurant a huge honor was being celebrated by hundreds.
The restaurant which served as a safe haven for civil rights stalwarts like Thurgood Marshall, who became Americaâs first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and local anti-segregation warriors including A.P. Tureaud, Israel Augustine, and Ernest âDutchâ Morial as they worked on lawsuits to challenge racial discrimination is now part of Louisianaâs new Civil Rights Trail and a large marker was placed outside of Dooky Chase to designate it as such.
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An historical marker stands outside of Dooky Chase s Restaurant on Orleans Avenue that honors significant locations in the Civil Rights movement in New Orleans, Monday, May 3, 2021. Dooky Chase s Restaurant was honored because it was a common meeting point for leaders of the Civil Rights movement during the era of segregation. The Louisiana Civil Rights Trail markers project will eventually include 15 locations. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) May 03, 2021 - 7:29 PM
NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase s, which served for years as a safe meeting space for civil rights activists to strategize over bowls of Creole gumbo, is the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail.
Dooky Chase’s Is First Stop on Louisiana Civil Rights Trail
NEW ORLEANS (AP) The New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase’s served as a safe meeting space for civil rights strategy sessions. Now it s the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. A 6-foot-tall steel silhouette of a figure carrying a protest sign was unveiled Monday outside the restaurant. It s the first of what will eventually be 15 markers on the Trail. They re being installed by the Louisiana Office of Tourism to honor the struggle for equal rights by Black Louisianans. Activist and restaurateur Leah Chase was called the “Queen of Creole Cuisine. She died in 2019.