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Who created ‘Krazy Kat’?

George Herriman, whose comic strip “Krazy Kat” ran for three decades, was born to a prominent New Orleans Creole family in Treme.

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New Orleans Improvement League emerged after NAACP ban

Founded on June 21, 1956, the New Orleans Improvement League’s goal was “to promote the economic, political, civic and social betterment of colored people and their harmonious cooperation with other peoples, etc.”

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