Come and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Last Walk by Wiletta Ferdinand!

About the author:

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 third 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, her Blog and her website, nolawarriorwriter.com, represent. Wiletta was raised in the historic Pontchartrain Park subdivision and she returned there in 1985 to raise her children in the same neighborhood that gave her such peace and pride. She is also working on the committee to have Pontchartrain Park declared a historic landmark on the National Register. She is very much involved with her community and write the monthly neighborhood community newsletter and distributes “Yard of the month” signs to deserving neighbors whose yards represent the care and commitment that pioneer residents started. Wiletta is also a family historian, who organizes 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 KwameJack Conrad is her great, great grandfather born in 1834 and enslaved until he began 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 along with Black Women of New Orleans 1900-1920. At St. Mary’s Academy she was the editor of her high school newspaper, The Regina, and she started taking pictures then. However, over the years she has taken photos of our cultures in New Orleans.