The Backstreet Cultural Museum offers a unique view into some the most sacred and influential African, Afro-Creole and African American cultural retentions in the United States. Within museum's collection holdings are over 500 films created by the Mr. Sylvester Francis the creator and director of the Backstreet. The film content ranges from Jazz Funerals, Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, Skull and Bone Gangs, Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls and other black masking traditions.