HNOC in the News
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.
“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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