Louisiana-born Pierre Caliste Landry was many things in life but he will be best known as the first Black person to be elected mayor in the U.S. Born April 19, 1981, in Ascension Parish’s large Prevost Plantation, his mother was a slave who worked as a cook as well. His father was a white worker possibly on the plantation. When […]
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