New Orleans, one year after Hurricane Katrina

The page up and down New Orleans has always aroused strong emotions. The French have avoided taking the regulation of land high Mississippi River oxbow would be the heart of the city. The Americans took over in the year 1803, like the plague beschimpfte marshland. “A country was in mourning,” the writer George Washington Cable wrote later. “Darkened huge cypress, diving, a country of reptiles, silence, shadow, corrupt”. Free blacks and European immigrants too poor for many people in the districts before taking to build intelligent cypress, houses oblong, well-ventilated and mount a rural area, has been pencilled plans over the city as ninth Ward. Without much in the way of schools, hospitals, transport or the man in the Ninth Ward depend on each other, organize mutual assistance and the non-profit corporation to take care of sick and financial resources. At the turn of the century, when New Orleans’s Guide civilians began drawing up plans for a so-called Industrial Canal connects Lake Pontchartrain to the river, they routed the ninth, cutting the area, came with the name of Austria Lower Ninth Ward. Three bridges, finally joined the city Nine, as it is known in the city, but the area has remained isolated.

Only fourteen thousand people lived in the Lower Ninth Ward at the time of Katrina - is less than three percent of the urban population - but the immediate vicinity, implies an importance disproportionate to its size. According to the two said he was sodden square miles, represent inertia, poverty and crime that Katrina, the city had a chance to remove or Taproot irreplaceable Afro-American New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward, in the wake of Katrina, one of the Vortex overwrought emotion and intemperate rhetoric, a stand for contradictory visions of the future city.

New Orleans had a tradition of intermarriage back to the French period, and blacks living upstream channel of light are rather bare. Lower Austria has nine under the name “at the same time that dark page of the city and a region that has been exceptional. Cane Cutter from sugar plantations sank in the city after World War I, looking good jobs docks, housing lots in the city, nine were fairly cheap to buy, nor big enough for gardens, chickens, pigs, even. schools, of course, were separated, but Frank Minyard, Orleans Parish, the Coroner “for over thirty years, A grew up in the Lower Nine in a white family also faithful to the neighborhood, that his mother forbade him to swim in the pool from Audubon Park in the city of Tony Audubon Park section . “My mother used to say, ‘They are not like us poor white Uptown,” he said to me. “I did not swim in the pool, I was in the navy.”

The neighborhood of the race began weaving decipher the 14 November 1960, Brown v. Board of Education, if federal-March neck accompanied by six years, the black child named Ruby Bridges by a jeering crowd and the William Frantz Public School in the north - Galvez Street. Leander Perez, head of policy neighbouring St. Bernard Parish, which was almost entirely white, white New Orleanians sought to resist. “Do not wait until the Burr-heads are forced into your schools,” he said. “Do something!” Blanche, and flees to New Orleans. Over time, Hurricane Katrina Struck, the city has lost about one quarter of its people, and more than seventy-five percent of those who remained were black, the bottom nine, the number was more than thirty percent. A quarter of New Orleanians were poor, two times higher than the national average, below nine, most households have always been less than thirty thousand dollars per year (national average is fifty-seven miles) , A large part of public subsidies. For years, the city one of the most violent in America. Ruby Bridges brother was killed during the year 1990 on the housing market project, in which he lived, last July, his eldest son, Craig, was killed on a road in New Orleans, while in a short break from his work on a cruise ship. Nine of the city was particularly dangerous. Until the eve of Katrina, he said, in the premises of a Kriminologe, “the capital of assassination, murder capital”.

The Lower Ninth Ward are not particularly low. Much of New Orleans - some rich areas around Lake Pontchartrain - rested four metres or more above sea level, whereas almost all nine core is sitting in a foot and half of seas, and parts are a few feet above. What damned during Katrina was its position near the crossroads of industry channel and another channel, the Mississippi Gulf Outlet, or Mr. Go, extends to the east of the city. The two lanes of Katrina’s funnelled to hold an increase in the breakup of the Industrial Canal Dam gun ring as a fire early in the morning of 29 August. The violence has been enormous. A huge wave schabte half a square mile of the homes of their foundations and the ground in ash and debris. A barge red iron the size of a hangar for aircraft mounted jump the gap and landed on the roof of a school. Not a house in the Lower Nine was spared, most of those who are not collapse or film from its foundations in their flooded rooflines. Their inhabitants - to say the least able to evacuate because it’s up to them to cars and money - drowned in water oily brown or attic chopped holes through the ceiling and sat down on paper burning tar roofs for days, expects to save it. The best known, Fats Domino, the roof of his house - incongruously a large white villa in a particularly dark part of the Lower Nine - Coast Guard helicopter in the middle of the night.

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