We still find a way to say ‘wait’/not so fast, but like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said,“wait has almost always meant never.”xxxviWe can’t wait any longer. We need to change. And we need to change now. Nomore waiting. This is not just about statues, this is about our attitudes andbehavior as well.
If you keep waiting nothing will ever be done so it is important to act now if you really care about something
This is however about showing the whole world that we as a city and as a peopleare able to acknowledge, understand, reconcile and most important, choose abetter future for ourselves, making straight what has been crooked and makingright what was wrong.
This is how you should go about things as a person in a powerful position
purposefully ignored
Most things in this country is purposefully ignored because it's not of value or doesn't benefit the white male majority
Confederate cause wasabout maintaining slavery and white supremacy
100% it was all about maintaining power and money because at the end of the day slavery was a major part of the economy in the south.
“A great nation does not hide itshistory. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”
Still for this reason is why I say America cannot say they are "great" there are so many flaws within this country that is still being made that is not being fixed properly to be for the people. We cannot call this country great if this country fails to simply learn have accountability for the damages caused.
out of many we are one.
This phrase is one that cannot be said about other cities. Yes some cities have more diversity but those cities are also extremely segregated
Since 2005
This part of the page is a little lacking because there is no way this is all the history of new orleans since 2005, there have been too many current events from 2022 alone thus far that can be looked into further
New Orleans was the biggest slave trading center in the country. In the 1840s, there were about 50 people-selling companies. Some whites went to the slave auctions for entertainment. Especially for travelers, the markets were a rival to the French Opera House and the Théâtre d’Orléans. The St. Louis Hotel#slave market and New Orleans Exchange held important markets. There was great demand for "fancy girls": young, light-skinned, good looking, sexual toys for well-to-do gentlemen.[25]
That's sick especially the demand for "fancy girls" like what?!
n 1849 Baton Rouge replaced New Orleans as the capital of the state. In
I went all this time thinking new orleans was the capital of louisiana ust because it's a major city in the state
, abolishing the Spanish
how did the city keep it's strong catholic presence?
In September 1722, a hurricane struck the city, blowing most of the structures down. After this, the administrators enforced the grid pattern dictated by Bienville but hitherto previously mostly ignored by the colonists. This grid plan is still seen today in the streets of the city's "French Quarter"
so the harsh weather conditions and natural disasters have been happening for centuries. I wonder how were they able to recover with the resources they had?
The history of New Orleans, Louisiana,
Before I start reading I think I have a fairly basic understanding of the history of new orleans because I like to just google stuff a lot but I did not know the major parts New Orleans played in the Civil Rights Movements which was so interesting learning.
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I feel after Katrina the Latinx population increased because they were sent to repair the city and then decided to reside there
During the later years of Morrison's administration, and for the entirety of Schiro's, the city was a center of the Civil Rights Movement. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in New Orleans, and lunch counter sit-ins were held in Canal Street department stores. A prominent and violent series of confrontations occurred in 1960 when the city attempted school desegregation, following the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). When six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in the Ninth Ward, she was the first child of color to attend a previously all-white school in the South.
I had no idea that these major events in black and American history that we learn about took place in New Orleans.
New Orleans' large community of well-educated, often French-speaking free persons of color (gens de couleur libres), who had been free prior to the Civil War, fought against Jim Crow. They organized the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens Committee) to work for civil rights. As part of their legal campaign, they recruited one of their own, Homer Plessy, to test whether Louisiana's newly enacted Separate Car Act was constitutional. Plessy boarded a commuter train departing New Orleans for Covington, Louisiana, sat in the car reserved for whites only, and was arrested. The case resulting from this incident, Plessy v. Ferguson, was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. The court ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional, effectively upholding Jim Crow measures.
Though this is typically not taught to us when learning about the plessy v ferguson case, new orleans played a major role in the civil rights movement with the concept of separate but equal.
Afro-Creole was present in religious beliefs and the Louisiana Creole language. The religion most associated with this period for was called Voodoo.[40][41]
New Orleans has very clear catholic beliefs as well in the city, how did that become a factor in the culture?
During the American Revolutionary War, New Orleans was an important port for smuggling aid to the American revolutionaries, and transporting military equipment and supplies up the Mississippi River.
This is why the united states bought the land to help them with transports during war times
The City that Care Forgot, used since at least 1938,[29] referring to the outwardly easygoing, carefree nature of the residents.
I never heard of this nickname but I can see how it applies because the residents I came in contact with have more of a free spirit in my opinion
Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast region of the United States.
I didn't realize the large role New Orleans plays in the economy and transporting goods. This makes since because of it's access to water.
French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [la nuvɛlɔʁleɑ̃]
Displays how New Orleans has French influence throughout even with its name.