Discover the culinary delights of local chefs. Learn all about the colorful Mardi Gras Indians. Call on Melrose, a plantation once owned by a freed slave. Explore Laura Plantation, where you’ll learn how West African slaves brought the Bre’r Rabbit stories to America. And stroll the grounds of Destrehan Plantation, home to a successful Freedmen’s Bureau Colony during Reconstruction. Louisiana has been the birthplace of many famous African Americans. Come celebrate achievements of African Americans in art, architecture, law, education, sports, the culinary arts and more. We invite you to wander through exhibits in the Cabildo and U.S. Mint. Give your kids something to think about at the River Road African-American Museum near Burnside, the Kent Plantation House in Alexandria or the African American Museum in Shreveport. The Hermione Museum in Tallulah includes an exhibit on Madam C.J. Walker, the first black self-made millionaire in the U.S.

The Louisiana African American Heritage Trail begins in New Orleans before taking you through South and Central Louisiana and up to the friendly towns of North Louisiana. Click the links below for brochures of the Trail.

• Greater New Orleans
• Sportsman's Paradise
• Plantation Country
• Crossroads
• Cajun Country