1. Total population for New Orleans in 1950: 570,445
- White population: 68%
- Black population: 34.9%
- Other: 0.2%
- http://usj.sagepub.com/content/42/7/1099.full.pdf+html
2. By WWII, New Orleans had the smallest proportion of African Americans of any major
Southern city
3. Between 1900-1950, New Orleans dropped from 12th to 16th place in urban hierarchy
4. The transition from merchandising to manufacturing due to WWII prompted a movement of rural Protestant Southerners into New Orleans
5. Asian, Latino, and some European immigrants were welcomed and incorporated into New Orleans society at a time when native-born blacks were still struggling to gain civil rights
6. Historically, the French Quarter in New Orleans had been the home of diverse groups of people. New Orleanians would live in mixed neighborhoods, until the Jim Crow era. Post WWII, middle class whites moved towards the suburbs where new neighborhoods had been built, and racist covenant deeds, kept African Americans out and increased segregation. This switched New Orleans from being tripartite to biracial.
7. After WWII, New Orleans city officials began devising strategies to increase tourist travel to enhance the economy of the city
8. During WWII, New Orleans was the site of construction and development of the Higgings boats
9. In 1947, Fort Lauderdale hurricane hit New Orleans, causing major flooding in some new suburbs
10. New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz, but by WWII jazz had dwindled from the popular areas of New Orleans visited by tourists, but was revitalized again by tourism
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