Voice of the Community

History Matters: C.C. Antoine

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

Caesar Carpentier Antoine was the Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1836 to 1872.
Unknown
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Dr. Gary Joiner / Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner looks back to Caesar Carpentier Antoine, the third of three African-American Republicans who were elected and served as the Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana during the era of Reconstruction.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”