Women

There were many influential women that took part in the New Orleans civil rights movement. Without some of the women presented in the documentary New Orleans and even the world may not be what it is today. Women like Oretha Castle Haley (seen above) have gone above and beyond what was asked of them.

Oretha Castle Haley -- (1939 - 1987) Haley was a founding member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in New Orleans. She was an active participant in the boycotts and strikes of the New Orleans civil rights movement, and she became the head of CORE. Later in her life, Castle created the New Orleans Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation and helped found Voices of the New Orleans Movement, an organization dedicated to preserving the history of the civil rights movement of New Orleans.