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Black Policemen In Jim Crow New Orleans, Vanessa Flores-Robert
Black Policemen In Jim Crow New Orleans, Vanessa Flores-Robert
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
Although historians have done in-‐depth researched on Black police in the South, before the Civil War and during Reconstruction, they seldom assess black policemen’s role in New Orleans between the Battle of Liberty Place and 1913. The men discussed here argue that despite the hardening racial attitudes in Post-‐ Reconstruction South, in New Orleans opportunity still existed for Blacks to serve in positions of authority, perhaps a heritage of the city’s earlier tri-‐partite racial order. The information obtained from primary sources such as police manuals, beat books, and newspapers, counters the widely held belief that African American presence in the …
Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study In Race & Politics In Reconstruction Louisiana, Brian Mitchell
Oscar James Dunn: A Case Study In Race & Politics In Reconstruction Louisiana, Brian Mitchell
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The study of African American Reconstruction leadership has presented a variety of unique challenges for modern historians who struggle to piece together the lives of men, who prior to the Civil War, had little political identity. The scant amounts of primary source data in regard to these leaders’ lives before the war, the destruction of many documents in regard to their leadership following the Reconstruction Era, and the treatment of these figures by historians prior to the Revisionist movement have left this body of extremely important political figures largely unexplored. This dissertation will examine the life of one of Louisiana’s …
“Emancipation From That Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton And “Barbary Piracy” From 1784 To 1805, Stacy Meyers
“Emancipation From That Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton And “Barbary Piracy” From 1784 To 1805, Stacy Meyers
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following essay examines the image of "Barbary piracy" created by two prominent political figures, Thomas Jefferson and William Eaton, and by the American public from 1784 to 1805, and how those images shaped the policy of the American-Barbary War. Eaton‟s Orientalist approach to describing piracy and the North African population limited his views of this region, thus reducing the American conflict to the annihilation of animalistic "brutes." Jefferson‟s practical approach to describing piracy and the North African population focused on emancipating the region from the corrupting influence of greed, allowing him the necessary flexibility to solve the conflict by …
Defending Desire: Resident Activists In New Orleans‟ Desire Housing Project, 1956-1980, Takashi Michael Matsumaru
Defending Desire: Resident Activists In New Orleans‟ Desire Housing Project, 1956-1980, Takashi Michael Matsumaru
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Desire Housing Project opened in 1956 as a segregated public housing development in New Orleans‟ Upper Ninth Ward. The Desire neighborhood, one of the few neighborhoods in the city where black homeownership had been encouraged, was transformed by the project. Hundreds of former Desire residents were displaced by the mammoth project, which became home to more than 13,000 residents by 1958. Built on what had once been a landfill, the Desire Housing Project came to epitomize the worst in public housing, before it was torn down by 2001. Although the project was isolated from the rest of the city …
Exiles At Home: The Struggle To Become American In Creole New Orleans (Book Review), Mary Niall Mitchell
Exiles At Home: The Struggle To Become American In Creole New Orleans (Book Review), Mary Niall Mitchell
History Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans," by Shirley Elizabeth Thompson.