![]() ![]() He also has authored two booklets about New Orleans Public School music teachers and other publications. Kennedy's books include Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans (2002) Big Chief Harrison and the Mardi Gras Indians (2010) and Chief of Chiefs: Robert Nathaniel Lee and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, 1915 – 2001 (2018). He also helped develop a pilot project for the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park to preserve the personal photos of area jazz musicians. He identified for scholars the dates of some of the earliest educational debates surrounding issues such as integration, corporal punishment, and prayer in schools.Īs Co-Principal Investigator, he worked with UNO graduate students on a Louisiana Board of Regents grant to review the handwritten minutes of the various New Orleans school boards from the 1840s and 1850s to locate and index educational precedents for issues such as corporal punishment, textbook selection, and school construction. Kennedy taught American, Louisiana, and New Orleans history at UNO (1999 – 2017), and in his research he documented the link between public school teachers and the music and musical economy of the city. The collection has grown to the length of five football fields. He initiated the Orleans Parish School Board Collection at the University of New Orleans in 1982, and when New Orleans suffered tragic losses due to the federal levee failure of 2005, many of the historical records of the city’s public schools survived. Long Library, University of New Orleans.Īl Kennedy, born in 1953 in Little Rock, AR, worked for the New Orleans Public Schools for 21 years in the school district’s public information office (1977 – 1998). ![]() Long Library, University of New Orleans.Ĭitation: Al Kennedy Collection, Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Processed by: Al Kennedy, with assistance from Aneesa Bibi, Nabeela Bibi, Madison Hazen, Jenidza Rivera, and Makenzee BrownĬopyright: Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Source: All materials came from the personal and professional files of Al Kennedy. Related Collections: Orleans Parish School Board Collection (Mss 147) United Teachers of New Orleans, Local 527 Collection (Mss 135) Joseph Logsdon Collection (MSS 316) Summary: The Al Kennedy Collection contains material related to Kennedy’s personal and professional life, including historical materials from the New Orleans Public Schools, memos and operational papers from his work with the Orleans Parish School Board, interviews and photographs from his research into public education in New Orleans, interviews and photographs related to the music and culture of New Orleans, and research materials for books and other publications. Geographic Locations: Primarily Louisiana (New Orleans), but also including Little Rock, Arkansas. ![]()
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