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TITLE	AUTHOR/EDITOR	PUBLISHED BY	Copyright/ Publication Date	Notes
A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana	Emanuel, Rachel L. and Tureaud, A. P. Jr.	Louisiana State University Press	2011
A New Orleans Vodou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau	Long, Carolyn Morrow	University Press of Florida	2006
Africans in Colonial Louisiana The Development of Afro Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century	Hall, Gwendolyn Midlow	Louisiana State University Press	1992
Becoming Free, Remaining Free - Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans 1848 - 1862	Schafer, Judith Kelleher	Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge	2003
Black New Orleans 1860 -1880	Blassingame, John W.	University of Chicago Press	1973
Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre Revolutionary Saint Domingue	King, Stewart R.	University of Georgia Press	2001
Bounded Lives, Bounded Places Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769 -1803	Hanger, Kimberly S.	Duke University Press	1997
Catherine Carmier	Gaines, Ernest	Vintage Books	1964	fiction
Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization	Logsdon, Joseph & Hirsch, Arnold	LSU Press	1992
Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color	Kein, Sybil ed.	Louisiana State University Press	2000
Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country	Brasseaux, Carl A.; Fontenot, Keith; Oubre, Claude F.	University Press of Mississippi - Jackson	1994
Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans	Thompson, Shirley Elizabeth	Harvard Unisversity Press	2009
Henriette Dellile "Servant of Slaves"	Gould, Virginia Meacham and Nolan, Charles E.	Sisters of the Holy Family	1998	dedicated to the work of Sister Audrey Marie Detiege, SSF
Images of America - African Americans of New Orleans	Flucker, Turry and Savage, Phoenix	Arcadia Publishing	2010
Louisiana's Black Heritage	Robert R.; Kemp, John R.; Haas, Edward F. , general editors	Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans	1979
New Orleans Free Men of Color Cabinet Makers in the New Orleans Furniture Trade 1800 - 1850	Moscou, Margo	Xavier University of Louisiana	2008
Our People and Our History Fifty Creole Portraits	Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien	Louisiana State University Press	1973 -translation (French original 1911)	Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire translated, edited by Sister Dorothea Olga McCants, Daughter of the Cross
Red Beans and Ricely Yours (Poems)	Saloy, Mona Lisa	Truman State University Press, Kirksville, Missouri	2005
Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro Creole Protest Tradition in Lousiana, 1718 - 1868	Bell, Caryn Cosse	Louisiana State University Press	1997
The Battle of New Orleans Negro Soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans	Christian, Marcus	The Battle of New Orleans 150th anniversary Committee of Louisiana	1965
The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color	Mills, Gary B	Louisiana State University Press	1977
The Free People of Color of New Orleans	Gehman, Mary	Margaret Media, Inc	1994	up to fifth edition
The Louisiana Native Guards The Black Military Experience During the Civil War	Hollandsworth, James G. Jr.	Louisiana State University Press	1995
The Mayor of New Orleans; Just Talking Jazz	Shaik, Fatima	Creative Arts Book Company	1989	fiction
The Negro in New Orleans	Rousseve, Charles B.	The Archives of Negro History, Inc printed by The Moret Press	1969
The New Orleans 7th Ward Dictionary 1938 -1965	Smith, Darrlyn A.	JADA, Inc	1996
The World That Made New Orleans From Spanish Silver To Congo Square	Sublette, Ned	Lawrence Hill Books (imprint of Chicago Review Press, Inc)	2008, 2009
Travels With Mae Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood	Julien, Eileen M.	Indiana University Press	2009	memoir
We As Freemen Plessy v. Ferguson	Medley, Keith Weldon	Pelican Publishing Company, Inc	2003

Creoles of Color in Louisiana
There is evidence that both French and Spanish Colonial Louisiana identified all its people (white, black, and mixed), both free and enslaved, who were born in the new world of old world stock as Creole. That included the offspring of Europeans (predominantly French and Spanish), Africans, and a mixture of both that could also include Native American.Read more ...

Genealogy and history are our mission
The Louisiana Creole Research Association, Inc., known as LA Creole, was founded on August 21, 2004 as a New Orleans-based, non-profit genealogy and family research organization. Read more ...

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