Leon A. Waters

Author and historian, director of Hidden Histories

www.hiddenhistory.us

Mr. Leon August Waters is a 66 year old native of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mr. Waters finished Xavier University in Business Administration, and graduated from St. Augustine High School.

He and his wife of 42 years, Aleta Cornin Waters, have three grown children.

Mr. Waters serves as the board chairperson of the Louisiana Museum of African American History. The museum began in 2002 on the second floor of St. Augustine Catholic Church hall in the Treme neighborhood. Katrina delivered a blow to many of the museum board members’ homes, and thus setback the museum. Today, the board is searching for a permanent physical facility for the museum.

As a licensed tour host, where he directs tours on ‘hidden history’, Mr. Waters is also the manager of Hidden History, L.C.C. – a publishing, touring, and research company.

He has published one book titled: On To New Orleans: Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt. (This 300 page book is the story of the largest slave revolt in the United States that happened in St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Orleans Parishes). Mr. Waters is currently working on two more books to be published soon.

“I have been working on the interface of social classes and mass resistance in a variety of forms. This includes an examination of social history that is “hidden history”, social inequality, and resistance; the hidden voice of the victim, particularly the voice of the buried former enslaved, and the political economic history of wars.”