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Markers honor locations vital to Louisiana civil rights

By STACEY PLAISANCEMay 4, 2021 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase's, that 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

Legendary Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase, dies at 96

By REBECCA SANTANAJune 2, 2019 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans chef and civil rights icon Leah Chase, who created the city's first white-tablecloth restaurant for black patrons, broke the city's segregation laws by seating white and black customers and introduced countless tourists to Southern Louisiana Creole cooking, died Saturday...

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