L'Union New Orleans Tribune Building

The New Orleans Tribune began on July 21, 1864, as a tri-weekly and went daily that October, the first Black daily newspaper in the country. It ran in French and English. Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez founded it, his brother Jean Baptiste published it, and Paul Trévigne edited it before Jean Charles Houzeau. It pressed for the vote, public schools, land for the formerly enslaved and streetcar desegregation, and in 1867 helped register more than 80,000 Black voters. After a break with the Republican ticket in the 1868 governor's race it lost its backing and stopped regular publication that April.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — steps away
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — steps away
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 0.2 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.5 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Original Pierre Maspero's Slave Exchange — steps away
• Louis J. Dufilho — steps away
• Homesite of Oliver Pollock — steps away
• Natchez Steamboats — steps away