Susan Allen

Women's Reproductive freedom activist

Slidell, LA

Susan Jane Allen was born in Detroit in 1948. Her parents, Leo and Helen Allen, both worked in the space industry. In 1962, the family...
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Stewart Butler

engineer; founder, The Faerie Playhouse

New Orleans, LA

Stewart Butler was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1930, moved to New Orleans in 1932 and to Carville, Louisiana in 1941. He attended Louisiana State...
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Michael Hickerson

carnival krewe performer, social worker

Slidell, LA

Michael Hickerson was born in New Orleans in 1955. His dad was a longshoreman, and his mom ran the cafeteria at New Orleans City Hall....
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Crystal Lynne Little

Navy veteran, transgender activist

Bay Saint Louis, MS

Crystal Little was born in 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and named Charles. The second of seven kids in his family, Charles never felt a...
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