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1 Map, TBD
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The War on Poverty Target Areas in New Orleans
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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