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Faubourg Tremé: Community in Transition

 

© Brenda Marie Osbey

 

 

“Faubourg Tremé: Community in Transition” is a series of articles originally published in various issues of the New Orleans Tribune from 1990 through 1997. The series focuses on key moments in the history and development of the nation’s oldest free African American community. The articles cover the period from the establishment of the community in the 1710s through the 1950s.

This series remains the only published history of Faubourg Tremé. 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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“Faubourg Tremé: Community in Transition” by Brenda Marie Osbey
a continuing series published in The New Orleans Tribune:

 

“Part I: Early History,” December 1990 (vol. 6, no 12), pp. 14–16.

 

“Part II: Solidifying the Community,” January 1991 (vol. 7, no. 1), pp. 12–14.

 

“Part III: The Beginning of the End,” August 1991 (vol. 7, no. 8), pp. 14–15.

 

“Part IV: The Fall of Tremé,” September 1991 (vol. 7, no. 9), pp. 14–15.

 

“Part V: A New Era,” November 1991 (vol. 7, no. 11), pp. 20–21.

 

“Part VI: The Making of a Ghetto,” December 1991 (vol. 7, 12), pp. 20–21.

 

“Part VII: Losing Ground,” February 1997 (vol. 13, no. 2), pp. 18–21.

 

Related works:

“The Making of Early Jazz in New Orleans,” July 1995, pp. 14–15.

“Requiem for a Chief: Allison Marcel ‘Tootie’ Montana 1922–2005,” July/August 2005, pp. 20–22.

 

 

 

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