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1 Map, TBD

caption-- The War on Poverty Target Areas in New Orleans

credit-- Based on a map created by Joy Bonoguro, February 3, 2004, http://www.gnocdc.org.

2 recent20_ downtown 1960

caption-- ca. 1960. Looking northward at downtown New Orleans. The wide avenue on the right is Canal Street. The one on the left is Poydras Street, a corridor enveloped by skyscrapers by 1980.

credit-- J. R. St. Julien. Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

3 recent426_downtown 1980

caption-- ca. 1980. Looking southeast at New Orleans' Central Business District. The Superdome sits on the western edge of Poydras Street.

credit-- Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

4 18402_betsy_aerial_af1

caption--September 10, 1965. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, New Orleans Congressman Hale Boggs, President Lyndon Johnson, and Louisiana Senator Russell long view the damage caused by Hurricane Betsy.

credit-- Yoichi R. Okamoto, LBJ Library

5 18406_betsy_airforce1

caption-- September 10, 1965. Betsy flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward as seen from Air Force One.

credit-- Yoichi R. Okamoto, LBJ Library

6 Schiro at 1966 inauguration, vhs191.tif

caption-- Mayor Victor Hugo Schiro (waving in the white suit) and his wife, Mary Margaret "Sunny" Schiro, at festivities for his 1966 inauguration.

credit-- Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

7 Moon Landrieu with pipe, mll.tif

caption-- Mayor Maurice E. "Moon" Landrieu.

credit-- Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

8 ml273_blood test

caption-- 1973. A young patient receives a blood test at the Great Society-funded Lower Ninth Ward Health Center.

credit-- Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

9 ml275_ambulance

caption-- 1973. An elderly woman gets assistance from an ambulance service that is funded through the Model Cities program.

credit-- Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

10 FPO, apuva1_MINISTER_DRAGG-19KE8

caption-- Halloween, 1963. Officers remove Rev. Avery Alexander from City Hall during an attempt to desegregate the building.

credit-- AP

11 FPO, panthers apuva1_POLICE_MOVE_IN_19KDZ

caption-- November 20, 1970. NOPD officers and the tank "Bertha" during a failed assault on the Black Panthers in the Desire Housing Development.

credit-- Jack Thornell, AP

12 recent119_nhood city hall

caption-- 1973. An event known as the Neighborhood City Hall represented a stark shift from the racial segregation of the previous decade.

credit-- Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

13 recent66_landrieus_morial

caption-- ca. 1980. Three pioneering New Orleans Democrats, Ernest "Dutch" Morial, Mary Landrieu, and Maurice "Moon" Landrieu,

credit-- Harold Baquet. Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

14 recent393_st thomas

caption-- 1954. An aerial view of part of the St. Thomas Housing Development.

credit-- Hardy S. Williams Photography. Louisiana Division, New Orleans Public Library

15 20050124_neworleans0241_2_river garden

caption-- January 2005. Looking down the new Josephine Drive, a street in the new "River Garden" development that replaced the St. Thomas Housing Project. A new Wal-Mart Supercenter is directly behind the camera.

credit-- Kent B. Germany

DELETE. Katrina Diaspora map, October 2005

caption-- Halloween, 2005. The FEMA map of the Post-Katrina Diaspora.

credit-- FEMA and the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, www.gnocdc.org

       

       

 


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