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People & Events
Soldiers ride along in a US Coast Guard fan boat as it cruises the flooded streets of New Orleans looking for survivors after Hurricane Katrina swept through, submerging much of the city under more than six feet of water.

Find out more about the People & Events featured in New Orleans.

People

Pickwickians and Reconstruction

James Butler and the Flood of 1927

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) and Beginnings of Jazz

Events

Mardi Gras as History

Changing Landscape

Plessy v. Ferguson

Ruby Bridges and Integration of New Orleans Schools

Hurricane Katrina

 

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New Orleans American Experience

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