Converse, LA

Converse is a village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 379 residents. Converse was home to a community of African Americans referred to as Babsolina and the Sabine Normal and Industrial Institute, a normal and vocational school for African Americans. Converse is home to a community of African Americans referred to as Babsolina. Public schools in Sabine Parish are operated by the Sabine Parish School Board. The village of Converse is zoned to Converse High School. The short version is that Converse carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Converse: its past remains attached to the places people use now.