Rodolphe Desdunes
0Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes (November 15, 1849 – August 14, 1928) was an African-American civil rights activist, poet, historian, journalist, and customs officer primarily active in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In Louisiana he served as a militiaman during the Reconstruction era and was involved in the Battle of Liberty Place. Later, he was a member of L'Union Louisianaise and wrote for the weekly of the same name. He also wrote for the daily paper, the Crusader, and taught at the Couvent School in New Orleans.
In 1890, he was among the founders of the Comité des Citoyens, which fought the 1890 Separate Car Act through legal challenges, leading to the US Supreme Court Case, Plessy vs Ferguson (1896). He also wrote an important French-language history of Creoles in America called Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire, the first such book written in French by a member of the Louisiana Creoles of Color.
Later in life he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where his son Daniel had settled.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe_Desdunes
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