largest in New Orleans. As many as 50,000 people lined Canal Street for the procession, and newspapers across the nation reported the event. State officials, Masonic lodges and civic and social organizations participated in the procession from the St. James A.M.E. church to his grave site. He was interred in the Cassanave family mausoleum at St. Louis Cemetery No. 2. Honors W.E.B. Du Bois, leading civil rights activist, later called Dunn "an unselfish, incorruptible leader." The New Orleans Times-Picayune published a poem the day after Dunn's death in his honor, entitled The Death Struggle: Survivors After his death, his widow, Ellen, was appointed by the mayor of New Orleans to the position of municipal archives director. Several years later, on November 23, 1875, she married J. Henri Burch. A former state senator from East Baton Rouge Parish, Burch had been an ally of her late husband's, as part of the Custom House faction. The Burch family resided in New Orleans and continued there after the withdrawal of federal troops and the end of Reconstruction, in 1877. See also List of African-American firsts List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States Notes References Perkins, A.E. "Oscar James Dunn." Phylon 4.2 (1943): 102–121. Perkins, A. E. "James Henri Burch and Oscar James Dunn in Louisiana." Journal of Negro History 22.3 (1937): 321–334. online Smith-Brown, Claudette L. A Re-Examination of Selected Primary Source Documents Regarding Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, 1868–1871, Master's Thesis, Baton Rouge: Southern University, 2007, p. 244. External links Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened Radio WWNO story on Dunn by Laine Kaplan-Levinson 1826 births 1871 deaths Louisiana Republicans Lieutenant Governors of Louisiana Politicians from New Orleans African-American people in Louisiana politics Activists for African-American civil rights African-American musicians Louisiana city council members 19th-century American musicians 19th-century American politicians African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era