Exhibit: The Lafayette Parish Community Remembrance Project

The History of Lynching Exhibit is on display in the foyer of Edith Garland Dupre Library from May 2023 to Aug. 2023.

This display is a part of the Lafayette Parish Community Remembrance Project, in conjunction with the Equal Justice Initiative. Move the Mindset, a local organization whose focus is to educate Lafayette citizens on their shared history, organized the Lafayette Parish Community Remembrance Project and has worked with both the Equal Justice Initiative (a national organization) and the Ernest J. Gaines Center to arrange these exhibits in Lafayette.

Of the six lynching victims identified in Lafayette parish, two have been displayed in this exhibit: Ovide Belizaire and the Unknown Victim.

For more information about this exhibit, visit The Lafayette Parish Community Remembrance Project guide.