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Bookmark or Share- Lower Ninth Ward - WikipediaThe Lower Ninth Ward is a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As the name implies, it is part of the 9th Ward of New Orleans.
- 9th Ward of New Orleans - WikipediaThe portion of the Ninth Ward along the river down-river from the Industrial Canal stretching to the St. Bernard line is called the "Lower 9th Ward" or "Lower Ninth". Also commonly referred to as "vulture island," popularized by famous rapper Rob 49.
- Lower Ninth Ward Levee Breaches in 2005 - New Orleans HistoricalHouses in this neighborhood, called the Lower Ninth Ward, were built right up to the canal walls and were shaded by huge oaks, cypresses, and pecans. On August 29, 2005, at about 5 a.m., a section of the I-wall south of the Florida Avenue bridge began to breach.
- “The Forgotten People of New Orleans”: Community, Vulnerability, and ...After a federal judge ordered desegregation in New Orleans to begin in 1960, a reluctant all-white Orleans Parish School Board chose five black girls from the Ninth Ward to desegregate two white elementary schools, one in the Lower Ninth Ward and one in the Upper Ninth Ward.
- New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward is still reeling from Hurricane Katrina's ...Overgrown lots still blanket the landscape in the “backatown” area lakeward of North Claiborne Avenue, where the market for homes has flatlined.
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