Caesar Carpentier Antoine (c. 1836–1921) was a soldier, businessman, editor, and African-American Republican politician in Louisiana during the Reconstruction era.
He was a member of St. Paul's Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and lived in the Allendale neighborhood.
[1] He was elected as a state senator for Caddo Parish in 1868, partaking in the Louisiana Constitutional Convention.
[1] In 1887, he co-founded Comité des Citoyens, which fought the case that became Plessy v. Ferguson, and became its vice-president.
[1][4] In 2008, C. C. Antoine Celebration was established as an annual event during Black History Month in Shreveport.