The Caddo Parish Civil Rights Heritage Trail project is expanding its scope with a new series designed to help historic villages, towns, neighborhoods, and/or cities in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, investigate three different versions of their communities: the past, the present, and the future. Team members include Dr. Gary Joiner, Mik Barnes, Jaclyn Tripp, Dr. Laura Meiki, Dr. Jolivette Anderson-Douong, Dr. Amy Rosner, Dr. Rolonda Teal, and Brenton Metzler.
The team is now focusing on the history of the Cedar Grove neighborhood.
In this, the first article in the series on Cedar Grove, Dr. Gary Joiner (Professor of History at LSU Shreveport) shows us how a social movement in 1911 Shreveport drastically changed Cedar Grove. …