Dancing in the Streets: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs of New Orleans

by Judy Cooper, Freddi Williams Evans, Matt Sakakeeny, et al.

Every Sunday from late August to Father's Day, a second line parade snakes through the neighborhoods and backstreets of New Orleans. The parades are hosted by social aid and pleasure clubs (SAPCs), civic organizations that have been fixtures in Black New Orleans since the nineteenth century. Born out of the funeral parades hosted by pre-Civil War benevolent associations, the second line tradition has persisted through Reconstruction, Jim Crow,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917860829
• ISBN13: 9780917860829
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Historic New Orleans Collection
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.5" x 11.6"