Wiletta Ferdinand and Jack Conrad and 1887 Thibodaux Massacre book cover courtesy of Wiletta Ferdinand.

Wiletta Ferdinand, founder of the Jack Conrad 1887 Thibodaux Massacre Foundation and Museum will present a talk on her latest book: Jack Conrad and the 1887 Thibodaux Massacre on Saturday June 4, from 11 am – 12 pm.

Wiletta Ferdinand is a retired high school English teacher, mother of four, grandmother of five, born, raised and educated in New Orleans. She attended Xavier University, Howard University, and UNO. She recently received her Master’s degree in Museum Studies at Southern University in New Orleans. She has always been a lover of the history and culture of New Orleans which her books and her blog represent. She grew up in New Orleans but spends all her summers with her grandmother in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Wiletta is also a family historian, who organizers the family trees on the maternal and paternal sides of the family. She has recently incorporated the Jack Conrad 1887 Thibodaux Massacre Foundation and Museum. Her other books are The Last Walk, This is My New Orleans, Katrina Made Me Write It, and Brother Kwame.

Jack Conrad is her great-great-grandfather born in 1834 and enslaved until he became a Union soldier and the story continues when he becomes a victim and survivor of the 1887 Thibodaux Massacre. Jack Conrad and the 1887 Thibodaux Massacre is her latest book.

This program takes place inside our first floor Education Center. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.