{"id":62772,"date":"2022-01-12T01:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62772"},"modified":"2022-01-12T01:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:13:22","slug":"to-a-dark-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62772","title":{"rendered":"To a Dark Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladigitalmedia.org\/video_v2\/asset-detail\/LNOST-107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>To a Dark Girl<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Star<br \/>Louisiana Public Broadcasting<br \/>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/ladigitalmedia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana Digital Media Archive<\/a><br \/>1985<\/p>\n<p>Contributors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Genevieve Stewart, Host<\/li>\n<li>Sister Barbara Marie, Interviewee<\/li>\n<li>Leslie Williams, Interviewee<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Diaz, Interviewee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladigitalmedia.org\/video_v2\/asset-detail\/LNOST-107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/americanarchive.org\/thumbnail\/cpb-aacip_17-00ns2hgm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode of the series &#8220;North Star&#8221; from 1985 focuses on two intertwined stories related to the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans<\/a> in the 19th century: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quadroon balls<\/a> held at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bourbonorleans.com\/wedding-venues\/orleans-ballroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orleans Ballroom<\/a>, clandestine events where white men met <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_people_of_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free women of color<\/a>, who would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=7657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become their mistresses<\/a>; the founding of the Sisters of the Holy Family, an African American congregation of Catholic nuns, by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henriette_DeLille\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henriette DeLille<\/a>; and a visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/smaneworleans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Mary\u2019s Academy<\/a>, the school run by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sisters_of_the_Holy_Family_(Louisiana)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sisters of the Holy Family<\/a>, which was once located at the Orleans Ballroom. Host: Genevieve Stewart<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video (00:14:20) <a href=\"http:\/\/ladigitalmedia.org\/video_v2\/asset-detail\/LNOST-107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To a Dark Girl North StarLouisiana Public BroadcastingSource: Louisiana Digital Media Archive1985 Contributors: Genevieve Stewart, Host Sister Barbara Marie, Interviewee Leslie Williams, Interviewee Michelle Diaz, Interviewee This episode of the series &#8220;North Star&#8221; from 1985 focuses on two intertwined stories related to the history of New Orleans in the 19th century: the quadroon balls held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,459,369,8,820,20,842,25],"tags":[32767,23928,32752,26908,29535,32768,32765,32753,32769,1438,32770,3178,3850,26909,32766],"class_list":["post-62772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-history","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-barbara-marie","tag-bourbon-orleans-hotel","tag-genevieve-stewart","tag-henriette-delille","tag-henriette-diaz-delille","tag-leslie-williams","tag-louisiana-digital-media-archive","tag-louisiana-public-broadcasting","tag-michelle-diaz","tag-new-orleans","tag-north-star","tag-placage","tag-quadroon-balls","tag-sisters-of-the-holy-family","tag-st-marys-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62773,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62772\/revisions\/62773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}