All in Jazz
In New Orleans home cooks mastered the art of creating economical dishes for weekday meals. Among them red beans and rice which is to New Orleans what baked beans are to Boston and cowpeas to Charleston.
Jazz musician Edgar “Dooky” Chase married Leah Chase, a native of Madison, Louisiana. The couple would go on to start Dooky Chase Restaurant in New Orleans.
n 1963, SNCC organized a voter registration drive among African-Americans in Leflore County Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta. Slowly a number of African-Americans began heading up at the County Courthouse to register to vote.
