| Birth: | 1849 | | Death: | 1928 | 
Author of "Nos Hommes et Noire Histoire" (Our People and Our HIstory: Fifty Creole Portraits), published in French in 1911, which chronicled the lives of 50 prominent black residents of New Orleans during the late 19th century. He was also a columnist for a black-owned New Orleans newspaper, "The Crusader," who wrote several influential articles during the "Plessy vs. Ferguson" case. (bio by: Joel Manuel)
Family links:
Children:
Daniel Desdunes (1873 - 1929)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Rodolphe Desdunes | | | Burial:
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Louisiana, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Joel Manuel
Record added: May 17, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6422699 |
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