1922

The Roaring Twenties - 1922

All my mother’s young life, her Papa worked on Girod Street at a bag factory. It, along with the Girod Street cemetery, are all a part of the Superdome complex now. And in the 50s and 60s, brown paper bags took over the market. My grandfather sewed bags/sacks twelve hours a day, five and a half days a week. He was promoted to supervisor in 1922, and killed for being Black—a white immigrant thought he should have the job.