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Episodes tagged "New Orleans": 1 through 9 of 9

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  1. Desegregating Schools
    date May 16, 1960map Orleans, Louisianatags New Orleans, Desegregation

    The article "U.S. Court Orders New Orleans To Start Pupil Integration in Fall: Outlines Grade-a-Year Plan After Board's Refusal to Present Own Proposal INTEGRATION SET IN NEW ORLEANS was written by Claude Sittons and published on the New York Times on May 17, 1960. The article states thaton May 16, 1960 Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright set September as the deadline for New Orleans to start desegregating...

  2. The Oncoming Threat of Cholera in New Orleans in 1849
    date December 30, 1848 to January 11, 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, cholera

    After a sixteen-year hiatus, cholera was once again on the doorstep of New Orleans. On December 30, 1848, reports from Pittsburgh began circling that cholera was the responsible agent for thirteen deaths aboard steamships known as the Diadem, the Watkins, and the Savannah; all of which had docked in the New Orleans harbor. A message from Cincinnati stated that fourteen people aboard the Peytona, which...

  3. The Change of Society in New Orleans Brought on by Cholera in 1849
    date December 30, 1848 to February 17, 1849map ORLEANS, Louisianatags cholera, New Orleans

    The devastation of cholera resumed in New Orleans on January 13, 1849 when the Medical Board pronounced that the disease had made its way into the levee. As was the case in the cholera epidemic of 1833, no one could explain why it had suddenly sprouted up again. There had not been many records indicating that ships from Europe had brought any cases of the disease in the most recent months. Theodore...

  4. Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873
    date April 14, 1873map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, Slaughterhouse Cases, Butchers, Health Codes 1873, Monopoly

    The smell of rotting, maggot infested corpses, stomach acid, and feces filled the humid air in New Orleans for years.  The look on the animal’s faces as they met their violent death was heartbreaking.   This butchering began what is now known as the controversial “Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873.”  Racial tension, public health issues, and a corrupt monopoly laid the foundation for the legal...

  5. Women in Post-Civil War New Orleans
    date April, 1862 to 1862map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Women, New Orleans, Civil War

    For one of the first times in American history, the women of New Orleans were taking the protection of their city and its reputation into their own hands. Spitting and yelling at soldiers from the north and refusing to even acknowledge their presence in the streets, even when the soldiers were offering the women assistance. There were many hostile feelings between the north and the south...

  6. Cuisine of New Orleans
    date January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1995map Orleans, Louisianatags Mardi gras, New Orleans, cuisine

    New Orleans is a city rich with cultural identity fused into the roots of its people. Most evidently, the cuisine has blossomed from the history of New Orleans, and as my primary source shows it is also the most celebrated and shared cuisine our country has to offer. The most famous part of New Orleans, the "French Quarter", is home to most all the cultural traditions New Orleans have...

  7. Governor Claiborne Remembered 23 Years After Death...
    date January 20, 1840 to August, 1840map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, Government, Politics, Urban Society, Governor Claiborne, Law, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War, Battle of New Orleans

    All the earth stood silent on December 20, 1803, as the Mississippi territorial governor rode in on the streets of New Orleans. Beautiful women adorned the balconies that hung over the Place d' Armes. Each country, represented by its own amount of officials and military, watched as the France flag descended and the American flag ascended succinctly down the pole, meeting halfway to acknowledge...

  8. The Lower Garden District of New Orleans
    date 1836 to 1852map ORLEANS, Louisianatags New Orleans, Garden District

    In the years following the Louisiana Purchase divisions arose within the city of New Orleans between the newly arriving Americans from the Eastern States and the pre-existing Creole faction of the city. The Creoles, a broad name referring to a group with a racial mix of French, African American, and Native American ancestry who were living in New Orleans following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, did...

  9. Local Chinese React to Imperial Decree
    date 1910 to 1911map Orleans, Louisianatags Migration/Transportation, Immigration, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Race Relations, New Orleans, China

    When Americans think of Chinatown, they rarely associate it with New Orleans, but at the turn of the twentieth century, New Orleans was the only southern city with a population of Chinese immigrants significant enough to constitute a Chinatown. Like other immigrants in America, the Chinese in New Orleans had to balance the ongoing connections and relationships back home with the opportunities presented...