Michael A. Ross's Blog, page 4
October 23, 2014
Descendants of the Digby family including Susan Golden-Perkins...
Descendants of the Digby family including Susan Golden-Perkins and Gary Golden (Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC, 10/22/14)
Descendants of Thomas and Bridgette Digby, the parents of Mollie...
Descendants of Thomas and Bridgette Digby, the parents of Mollie Digby whose kidnapping became the Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case of 1870 (Octavia Books, New Orleans, 10/16/14)
October 21, 2014
DSC_0054 by HammHawk on Flickr.
New Orleans Police Chief Michael...
DSC_0054 by HammHawk on Flickr.
New Orleans Police Chief Michael Harrison discusses the importance of Detective John Baptiste Jourdain and the other African-American officers who first integrated the New Orleans police force during Reconstruction. (Lil’ Dizzy’s book event for The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, 10/17/14)
DSC_0052 by HammHawk on Flickr.
An interested audience at the...
Last Friday in New Orleans, Wayne and Janet Baquet hosted a...
Last Friday in New Orleans, Wayne and Janet Baquet hosted a party to celebrate the release of THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING CASE at their iconic restaurant Li’l Dizzy’s. Here are some great shots from the evening. Many of the guests were Baquets and Jourdains (descendants of Afro-Creole Detective John Baptiste Jourdain)
October 16, 2014
An age-old mystery springs to life in ‘The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case’
Sometimes the work of a historian resembles old-fashioned detective work, gumshoeing through newspapers and public records, paging through old phone books. That’s certainly how it was
A feature by Susan Larson on the book in The New Orleans Advocate. Come out to my events tonight at Octavia Books and tomorrow night at Lil Dizzy’s.
October 15, 2014
October 14, 2014
NY Times feature: A Black Detective, an 1870 Trial and a What If
The New York Times feature on the book:
Citing a fair 1870 trial, “The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case” by Michael A. Ross argues that the racial reforms of Reconstruction were not preordained to fail. Written by Jennifer Schuessler
