krewe

social club

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New Orleans carnival

  • New Orleans: St. Louis Cathedral
    In New Orleans: Cultural life

    …Carnival group (called a “krewe”) was the Mystick Krewe of Comus, which appeared in 1857, though celebrations by masked participants date to the 1820s. The krewe of Rex came into existence in 1872. In 1992 the city council began requiring all krewes to be racially integrated; as a result,…

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