François Lacroix

Biography

François Lacroix (1806–1876) was a wealthy Creole of color, tailor, fabric merchant, and prominent landowner in New Orleans, Louisiana. His son, Victor Lacroix, was killed in the infamous New Orleans massacre of 1866, when primarily black Republicans gathered for a constitutional convention at the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans and were attacked by primarily white Democrats, including armed police and firemen. He supported his son's widow, a white woman named Sarah Brown, as well as their two children, until his death.

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