amistad research center

On June 28, 1839, the schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana, Cuba, setting off a series of events that would have international and historical consequences. On board the schooner were 53 Africans who had been abducted from West Africa and sold in violation of international law. Their intended fate was enslavement on plantations down coast from Havana. On the third day out, the Africans revolted and ordered that the ship be guided toward the rising sun back to Africa, but e

The Amistad Research Center has added a new digital collection to Tulane University’s Digital Library thanks to funding from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. This collection consists of photographs from the Ronnie Moore papers located at the Amistad Research Center. Moore is a civil rights activist and community development consultant who trained leaders in community organization, youth development, cultural diversity, and team building. Moore was the field secretary in the

In the 1980s, writer Tom Dent sat down with his good friend Andrew Young to talk about his life. The two were close. They had grown up together in New Orleans, and Dent even served as Young’s best man in his 1954 wedding to first wife Jean. In the time following, the two had both gone on to follow different paths, but both remained passionately engaged in their work and communities. Dent was a poet and playwright. He was a vocal participant in the Black Arts Movement, working

Three decades after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, writer Tom Dent undertook a journey across the southern United States. His goal was to find out if the sacrifices and hard-fought battles of the movement had resulted in any real, lasting change in the region. He visited cities and small towns from North Carolina to Mississippi, interviewing citizens and activists, both Black and White, collecting their impressions of the tumultuous era and their feelings about the c