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American Experience
1988
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American Experience
New Orleans (1 & 2) 19 Season 9 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
A history of New Orleans, from its origins as a French settlement to its post-Katrina present. Included: archival photos and film footage; and comments from New Orleans historians, residents and scholars on subjects like the birth of jazz, the city's struggles with integration and segregation, the white flight to the suburbs in the 1950s and the return of Katrina survivors.
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