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A profile of the city of New Orleans, focusing especially on its pre-Katrina history.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Insignia Films, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Educational Foundation, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, PBS Home Video
Other Authors: Pollak, Amanda (Producer), Ives, Stephen (Producer, Director), Carchman, Jenny (Producer), Ferrari, Michelle (Screenwriter), Wright, Jeffrey (Jeffrey Charles), 1965- (Narrator)
Format: DVD
Language:English
Published: Boston : [Alexandria, Va.] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Distributed by PBS Home Video, ©2007.
Subjects:
New Orleans (La.) > History.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) > Histoire.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD.
Video.
History.
Documentary > Television series.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapters: A city's survival
  • People of early New Orleans
  • A connection to the past
  • Resistance to Reconstruction
  • Rex, King of Carnival
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Rebuilding the neighborhood
  • Birth of jazz
  • The 1927 flood
  • "Let the good times roll"
  • A home to artists
  • Finding acceptance
  • Louis Armstrong returns home
  • Desegregation and suburbanization
  • New Orleans' promise.

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