River Road African American Museum - Telling Our Stories

River Road African American Museum program · February 18, 2026

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Opening: elevating local Black history

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Speaker 1 opens the program by saying the museum has taken local Black history "to the forefront," framing it as central to African American identity in the area and the purpose of the program.

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Program and oral-history tour of the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, highlighting the museum’s founding, a new exhibit about 272 enslaved people sold to Louisiana in the 1830s, stained-glass artwork, and calls to restore the True Friends Benevolent Society Hall.

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