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WVUE: HNOC Curator Discusses the Dryades Street Boycott of 1960

May 26, 2026

Eric Seiferth joined WVUE Fox 8 New Orleans to discuss a key moment of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans, as told in HNOC’s “The Trail They Blazed” exhibition.

HNOC senior curator Eric Seiferth discusses the Dryades Street boycotts of 1960 in a segment by WVUE Fox 8 New Orleans.
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“In the spring of 1960, a group of Black New Orleanians came together as part of the Consumers’ League to fight job discrimination on Dryades Street, which at that time was a main shopping district in New Orleans. . . . Our exhibition, The Trail They Blazed, talks about what happened in New Orleans, but also shows the wider impacts and how this work was part of the national [Civil Rights] Movement.”

Eric Seiferth, HNOC senior curator

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HNOC Announces Winners of 2026 Student Writing Contest

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This year’s contest challenged students to address important civil rights issues facing America today and in the future, inspired by the HNOC exhibition “The Trail They Blazed.”
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