New Orleans after the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society

In the 1960s and 1970s, New Orleans experienced one of the greatest transformations in its history. Its people replaced Jim Crow, fought a War on... Comments: In order to understand why New Orleans was such a mess when the federal levees... In the 1960s and 70s New Orleans was transformed by a people who replaced... A history of modern New Orleans from the 1960's to the present with all its... Read More »

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