The African American Heritage Trail 

This statewide heritage trail leads visitors in the footsteps of celebrated and everyday African Americans who helped shape the Louisiana state.

Plantations, universities, churches and art museums showcase all African American contributions, from academic to artistic. Learn more about the lives, lifestyles and livelihoods of Louisiana's pioneering African Americans by following all or part of the trail. 

A few trail locations: 

• River Road African American Museum, Donaldsonville
• Creole Heritage Folklore Centre, Opelousas
• Melrose Plantation, Melrose
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum, Monroe
• Hermione Museum, Tallulah
• St. Augustine Catholic Church, Natchez
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum, Alexandria
• Black Heritage Gallery, Lake Charles
• Creole Heritage Folklore Centre, Opelousas
• St. Martinville African American Museum, St. Martinville
• Southern University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge
• Laura Plantation, Vacherie
• Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum, Hammond 

Louisiana's African American Heritage Trail takes you to 33 sites around the state, bringing together histories, personalities and achievements in a way that no single museum ever could. Visit AStoryLikeNoOther.com for stories, photos, itineraries, maps and the free iPhone app.

If you want to know where to honour Louisiana's African American Heritage and get to know the people and places of Louisiana that played important roles in African-American history, you can read more here.

And for some music, each year in Louisiana is the Satchmo SummerFest, a three-day festival in New Orleans, that celebrates Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong's life and music.