Events / Activities

PRESS RELEASE: When:             Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 10:00 am to 3:00 p.m.   What:              Community Collecting Event  Who:               Iberia Parish and Surrounding Area Residents   Where:            The Iberia African American Historical Society Center for Research and Learning Shadows-on-the-Teche Visitor Center, 2nd floor, 320 E. Main St. New Iberia, Louisiana 70560 Contact:           Taylor Suir, IAAHS Program Coordinator for Digital Collections(337) 369-6446 TSuir@savingplaves.org The Iberia African American Historical Society Center for Research ...

As you may know, over the past two years Drs. Ian Beamish and Cheylon Woods have been co-teaching the University of Louisiana Lafayette Public History Seminars 451 and 452, in partnership with IAAHS.  (HIST 451: the systematic examination of archival administration, museum management, historical editing, oral history, historic site management and preservation.) In 2022, after talks with Dr. Phebe Hayes, ...

The Iberia African American Historical Society (IAAHS) invited the public to A Legacy Revealed: The Unveiling of The Queen Mother Moore Marker and the formal opening of The Iberia African American Historical Society Center for Research and Learning on Saturday August 12, 2023 in New Iberia, Louisiana. Last year, we were awarded a Rebirth Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for ...

Okinawa Prefecture is home to US military bases, and cases in which American servicemen abandon local women and leave them to raise their children alone are not uncommon. For 28 years, New Iberia native and American attorney Annette Callagain fought for those mothers to obtain child support. We follow Annette in her efforts to give the women a voice and ...