1842

Free people of color found the Holy Family sisters and Couvent school

In 1842, Henriette Delille, a free Afro-Creole woman, founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in New Orleans to serve enslaved people, free people of color, and the poor. In 1848, free men of color opened L'Institution Catholique pour l'Instruction des Orphelins dans l'Indigence, funded by the bequest of Marie Couvent, a free woman of color who died in 1837.