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Members of the Seventh Ward Civic League
Villard Paddio
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States
Civic leagues in New Orleans can be traced to the formation of the Seventh Ward Civic League. It was established to represent the seventh ward in the city, a largely Creole district. Its formation was due to a meeting held at the Autocrat Club in November of 1927. Dr. Joseph Hardin, a physician and business owner of a drug store and insurance company, was instrumental in its founding. He became president of the organization the same year it was founded. The goals of the League were to improve civic pride and welfare, encourage education, support black businesses, and promote interracial cooperation.
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- Title: Members of the Seventh Ward Civic League
- Creator: Villard Paddio
- Subject Keywords: Seventh Ward Civic League, Civil rights--Louisiana
- Type: photograph
- Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
- Repository: Amistad Research Center
- Date: 1930
- Collection: Joseph A. Hardin papers
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