Trip Ideas
Explore these itineraries and trip ideas to experience the African American Heritage Trail.
They blazed many trails. Now retrace their footsteps.
Walk the streets where jazz was born. Learn about America's first black governor. Hear how enslaved Black people fled the plantations to fight for the Union army — and how one man's refusal to move from his seat on a train led to a long struggle against segregation and the eventual triumph of the Civil Rights movement. It all happened right here, in a place like no other.
Map of African American Heritage Trail Sites
Trail Sites
The George and Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art
Providence Park Cemetery, Mahalia Jackson’s Gravesite
River Road African American Museum
Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum
Port Hudson State Historic Site
Cane River Creole National Historical Park
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum
Audubon State Historic Site/Oakley House
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site
Le Vieux Village Historical Park and Museum
Le Vieux Village Historical Park And Museum
Our Lady Of Grace Historic Sanctuary
Destrehan Plantation
Lutheran Benevolent Society Cemetery
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