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	<GNOCDC> Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Snapshot
		In the late 1950s, the second bridge between the city and the Lower Ninth Ward, The Judge William Seeber Bridge, known locally as the Claiborne Avenue Bridge, was built across the Industrial Canal at Claiborne Avenue.
		As a result of the activism of residents (particularly from the Lower Ninth Ward) that emerged with the fight for civil rights, and the expertise of the NAACP legal team, the school desegregation movement marked New Orleans as the first deep-South school district to open its all-white doors to fl children.
		The Lower Ninth Ward stands to be the neighborhood most affected by the Industrial Canal Lock Project since the actual facilities replacement will occur between Claiborne and Florida Avenues and changes will be made to the bridges that flank the area.
	www.gnocdc.org /orleans/8/22/snapshot.html (1748 words)

	Ninth Ward of New Orleans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ninth Ward or 9th Ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the eastern downriver portion of the city.
		On the south the Ninth Ward is bounded by the Mississippi River.
		The portion of the Ninth Ward along the riverfront between Faubourg Marigny and the Industrial Canal is known as Bywater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/9th_Ward (1098 words)

	Chestnut Hill Local - News Story #4
		John O¹Connell, Democratic committeeperson for the sixth division of the Ninth Ward, was elected Democratic Ward Leader in an election on March 2.
		Schwartz resigned her positions as a committeeperson and ward leader in the ninth division at the February ward meeting because she moved to Jenkintown, in order to live in the 13th Congressional District, where she is running for the Democratic nomination.
		The committeepeople representing the ward¹s 11,13, 14 and 15th divisions, which are in the 198th House District, voted to endorse former West Mt. Airy Neighbors president Marc Stier for the Democratic nomination for the 198th House seat, over incumbent Rosita Youngblood and candidates Curtis McAllister, Latrice Bryant, Supreme Divine Dow and Lamont Thomas.
	www.chestnuthilllocal.com /archives/031104/news4.html (424 words)

	Ward 09; Alderman Anthony Beale's Ward 9 / ninth ward. Providing residents information on Ward news and events
		Ward 09; Alderman Anthony Beale's Ward 9 / ninth ward.
		WELCOME TO 9TH WARD ALDERMAN ANTHONY A. Alderman Anthony A. Beale, one of the youngest of the 50 aldermen in the Chicago City Council, is leading a renaissance in Chicago's 9th Ward.
		To make the 9th Ward a better place to live and work, communication between the alderman, his staff and the residents is essential.
	www.ward09.com (349 words)

	LYRICS: Small Change: I Wish I Was In New Orleans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ninth Ward was considered the perfect site because it was "a virtually uninhabited area" or at least, uninhabited by anyone capable of stopping the captains of industry.
		Between 1918 and 1923, the Industrial Canal was built through the heart of the Ninth Ward, resulting in the divisions known as the Ninth Ward and the Lower Ninth Ward...
		The staff of life in the Ninth Ward is the po-boy, limp with gravy, hot sauce and Blue Plate mayonnaise, washed down with a draft beer-no particular brand, as long as it's cheap.
	www.keeslau.com /TomWaitsSupplement/Lyrics/Smallchange/Iwishiwasinneworleans-ub.htm (1828 words)

	Juliette Landphair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in 1909, Luke moved to the Ninth Ward in 1909 with her family to partake in the area's "country life."67 Luke's father, Reverend Burnell H. Goins, soon became involved with improving the neighborhood; in 1945, he helped found the Ninth Ward Civic and Improvement League.
		Ninth Warders, fl and white, had contended for years with the indifference of city officials toward the quality of human life in their region, though official interest did perk up when industry or housing was concerned.
		For Ninth Ward whites, the decision of school board officials to desegregate their region simply represented one more example of the city's "pure malice" for the Ninth Ward.
	www.virginia.edu /~history/graduate/southcon/southcon.97/landphair.html (7885 words)

	portland imc - 2005.09.15 - Katrina’s Heart of Darkness: A Vermonter Describes The Devastated Ninth Ward
		New Orleans, LA -On the morning of Thursday, September 8th, I prepared to depart from Johnny White's tavern in the French Quarter, to venture into the devastated Ninth Ward.
		The Ninth Ward was also the location of much alleged shootings.
		The writer was in the Lower Ninth Ward, which he entered when he cross the Industrial Canal (the bridge with soldiers).
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/09/324898.shtml (1284 words)

	HBO PPV.com: Boxing History - GATTI vs. WARD
		Ward’s cutman Al Gavin would have to be a magician to keep his fighter going the full ten.
		Ward landed a left hook to the body that crumpled Gatti, forcing him to take a knee for a nine count.
		Ward, still spent from the ninth round, managed to engage Gatti in one last toe-to-toe barrage.
	www.hboppv.com /web_exclusives/boxing_history/gatti_ward.shtml (763 words)

	San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Ninth Ward has gained international media attention since Hurricane Katrina, due to the severity of flooding along with the human rights violations and neglect the residents have suffered at the hands of the New Orleans Police Department and the government of Louisiana.
		Common Ground volunteers are currently placing information sheets on every door of the Ninth Ward urging residents to return home, organize, help each other and resist the city's efforts to destroy their community for profits.
		It is our belief that the Ninth Ward community will have more of a chance of surviving if the residents know that aid and relief are available for the long term.
	www.sfbayview.com /neworleans/solidarity101905.shtml (788 words)

	Gambit Weekly : Last of the Ninth : November 22, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Lower Ninth Ward, an historic neighborhood, was constructed primarily in the years following the Civil War as European immigrants poured into the city, and carries a unique set of burdens and glories.
		Sadly, the dominating legacy of the Lower Ninth Ward in recent decades is crime, specifically homicide.
		Unlike the Lower Ninth, the upriver section of the Ninth Ward, Bywater, was relatively untouched by the flooding that inundated areas on the other side of the Industrial Canal.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2005-11-22/cover_story2.php (2014 words)

	Metroblogging New Orleans: A Modest Proposal for the Lower Ninth Ward
		Humans hunting humans in the Lower Ninth Ward is the last straw.
		Now therefore, as God-Emperor of the Lower Ninth Ward, I'm issuing a handgun to every resident who has attained the age of 26 without a felony conviction and has passed a course in gun safety.
		My second round of Ninth Ward handgun issuances will go to the all the gay guys who are out and proud.
	neworleans.metblogs.com /archives/2004/12/a_modest_propos_1.phtml (487 words)

	Salon.com News \| Last of the Ninth - NP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward was a historic fl neighborhood, home to Fats Domino, abandoned by government, and the "murder capital of the murder capital." Now that it has been destroyed by Katrina, will its loyal inhabitants be able to return?
		An auto mechanic, Knight, 44, made a home for himself in the neighborhood he was raised in, the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
		Yet, the Lower Ninth Ward was violently thrust into the national spotlight when it flooded after the first levee breach in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
	salon.com /news/feature/2005/09/13/ninth/print.html (345 words)

	Report from the Devastated Front Lines of the Lower Ninth Ward - New Orleans
		The residents of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans were finally allowed to return home on December 1, 2005.
		The only work done by the government in the Lower Ninth Ward in more than 3 months was to move the mud and debris out of the main roads.
		Many believe the levee was dynamited to drain the canal into the Lower Ninth Ward rather than the wealthier neighborhoods.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/1207-23.htm (904 words)

	In New Orleans' Mud, A Ward Determined Not To Slip Away
		Like the threads of a sweater that keep the whole from unraveling, the Lower Ninth Ward was woven together by a network rich in family history, social connections, and proximity to relatives and friends.
		Before the two hurricanes, the Lower Ninth was — and still is — a mix of finely-carpentered shotgun cottages and bungalows, with brick homes and an occasional larger Victorian fitted along a fine grain of interlocking streets.
		Most notably, the Lower Ninth is the area where known and unknown musicians learned their art from birth.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/1107-28.htm (1044 words)

	Just a Bump in the Beltway: Ninth Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		NEW ORLEANS -- The Lower Ninth Ward crouches behind a pile of dirt, separated by a big bend in America's biggest river and a thick canal and eons of tradition from the "high-class people" up on the high ground over in the French Quarter.
		New Orleans is a counterintuitive place, and so is the Ninth Ward: The streets closest to the river stay driest and drain fastest because the ground is higher there, and the ruined houses have the small consolation of being glazed now by caked dry mud instead of the wet stuff.
		The storm that wrecked the Lower Ninth Ward only worsened the class divide, the mistrust that was here before.
	www.node707.com /archives/005111.shtml (939 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > Hurricane Katrina -- Uncertain future ahead for impoverished, ...
		NEW ORLEANS –; The Lower Ninth Ward was often last in line – even in good times.
		For now, the extent of devastation makes it hard to envision a rebuilt Ninth Ward – a neighborhood once again ready to send its prodigies to the downtown jazz clubs and provide some of the Mardi Gras' liveliest krewes.
		On the one hand, Bailey is angry; like others from the Ninth Ward she harbors suspicions – unsupported by any official account – that the industrial canal levee failure that flooded her neighborhood was a deliberate act aimed at saving other areas at the expense of the Lower Ninth.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/katrina/20050922-1147-katrina-lowerninth.html (1319 words)

	GLOBAL*BEAT: "The Truth About the Ninth Ward"
		I was born and raised in the Lower Ninth Ward community of New Orleans.
		The Lower Ninth Ward was never in danger of flooding from the breaches that flooded the city proper, as it is separated from the city by water.
		The historical side of the Lower Ninth Ward, the Holy Cross area, has been very vocal in making a case for why this should not happen on their end, but the poorer side (N. Claiborne to Florida) was unable to gain any footholds (the side where the barge broke through).
	www.g21.net /gb37.html (3040 words)

	Common Ground Collective: NOLA housing occupation defies plan to demolish lower Ninth Ward : AZ IMC
		The lower Ninth Ward is currently under a dusk to dawn curfew and and city plans under way would raze this community rather than help it to rebuild.
		In spite of a moratorium on bulldozing structures until January 6th, the City is in violation of its own stipulation, according to Brandon Darby, CGC's Ninth Ward Organizer and Coordinator.
		Instead, CGC demands that the city, state, and federal government extend the same courtesy to Ninth Ward residents, as was allowed St. Bernard Parish's property owners; that is FEMA trailers to home owners, while their houses are restored and property cleaned up.
	arizona.indymedia.org /news/2006/01/34644.php (383 words)

	NEW ORLEANS NINTH WARD UNDERGROUND ISSUE: INTRO
		I decided to get in touch with my few friends left in New Orleans to try to get a line on their experiences during the hurricane and in exile– as well as their opinions of what this all means for their city, their neighborhood, and, most of all their music.
		Overall I was sympathetic to the plight of the Ninth Ward musicians but not too worried because I knew that, as long as these people were alive, everything I like about the place would live on – they’re not weaklings by any stretch of the imagination.
		And they're in the process of proving it - Mardi Gras is on, Quintron's Ninth Ward Marching Band are currently practicing to hit the streets, mainstays like MC Trachiotomy are playing shows, there're a million parties, and there's quite a bit going on at The Circle Bar and other spots.
	newyorknighttrain.com /zine/issues/3/neworleansintro.html (811 words)

	The Future of the Ninth Ward by Daisy Hernández
		Activists in the Ninth Ward claim that the bulldozing has actually already begun, but that is difficult to prove since the Lower Ninth was officially closed to the public for three months.
		In the Ninth Ward itself, the issue of rebuilding has become controversial even among organizers, who can’t agree on what would be best for the Black neighborhood.
		For three months, city officials refused to open the Lower Ninth Ward to the public, citing safety concerns, including that buildings might be in danger of collapsing.
	www.colorlines.com /article.php?ID=27 (937 words)

	LA State representative Charmaine Marchand fights for the Lower Ninth Ward
		A native of the Lower Ninth Ward who lost her home in Katrina, Marchand founded the association in February as a way to reunite residents.
		She draws attention to the mistaken belief that the Lower Ninth Ward is prone to flooding because it sits lower below sea level than other parts of the city.
		While the Lower Ninth Ward had a homeownership rate of over 50 percent, one of the highest in the city, the working class ward was also one of the poorest.
	www.thebeehive.org /Templates/HurricaneKatrina/Level3NoFrills.aspx?PageId=1.5369.6532.7916 (660 words)

	Ninth Ward Fairly Sound, Study Says - washingtonpost.com
		NEW ORLEANS -- Urban planners at three universities are challenging the notion that the city's Ninth Ward must be rebuilt from scratch, reporting in a new survey that the predominantly fl neighborhoods can be brought back largely as they existed before Hurricane Katrina flooded them.
		Although hurricane damage was extensive in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, urban planners said many buildings "suffered no terminal structural damage." But in the Lower Ninth Ward, where the above building is located, some structures must first be demolished, they said.
		More than 80 percent of the Ninth Ward's structures "suffered no terminal structural damage," the research found, and the majority of those structures were built atop piers, making it easier to raise them to meet new flood zone requirements.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/07/AR2007010701143.html (558 words)

	No light yet for New Orleans' Ninth Ward
		But less than a mile west of Toruno's nearly finished house, in the city's poorest Lower Ninth Ward, which bore the brunt of Katrina's devastation, no one is rebuilding the gutted frame of Albert Bass' wooden home, or any houses around it.
		The excruciatingly slow recovery of the Lower Ninth Ward is representative of the hurdles the poor face throughout New Orleans, in such districts as Treme and Bywater, which Katrina also inundated, and where recovery is equally hard to discern.
		But few in the Lower Ninth Ward, where the median household income before the hurricane was $19,000 a year, had flood insurance or savings they could use to rebuild.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/282625_katrinadivide27.html (1152 words)

	Poor still stunned by Katrina / HURRICANE AFTERMATH: Recovery effort reveals a great divide between New Orleans' ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The excruciatingly slow recovery of the Lower Ninth Ward is representative of the hurdles the poor face throughout New Orleans, in such districts as Treme and Bywater, which Katrina also inundated, and where recovery is equally hard to discern.
		But few in the Lower Ninth Ward, where the median household income before the hurricane was $19,000 a year, had flood insurance or savings they could use to rebuild.
		Some in the Lower Ninth Ward, on the other hand, say it may be better to build a new life wherever they were evacuated than try to return to their dilapidated neighborhood.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/20/MNGMPKM0VQ1.DTL (1876 words)

	Michigan Land Use Institute,sprawl,non-profit,nonprofit,non profit,research,land stewardship, land use,energy ...
		New Orleans' Ninth Ward was, until Hurricane Katrina, a solidly working-class neighborhood blessed with remarkably strong family ties and a high home ownership rate.
		Like the threads of a sweater that keep the whole from unraveling, the Lower Ninth Ward was woven together by a network rich in family history, social connections, and proximity to relatives and friends.
		Before the two hurricanes, the Lower Ninth was — and still is — a mix of finely-carpentered shotgun cottages and bungalows, with brick homes and an occasional larger Victorian fitted along a fine grain of interlocking streets.
	www.mlui.org /growthmanagement/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16934 (1180 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Lower Ninth Ward evokes volatile rebuilding debate
		On Saturday, firefighters put red stickers on hundreds of homes deemed unsafe, the first step in a wrenching debate over whether the Lower Ninth Ward should be rebuilt or whether, as some suggest, it should revert to its natural state: swamp.
		In a news conference Friday, Nagin was noncommittal about the future of the Lower Ninth, noting that portions still are flooded, there is a "significant amount of debris and mud," and environmental tests must be conducted.
		Closest to the river, the flood was five to seven feet deep; farther down into the neighborhood — away from the river — the water lapped at rooftops.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002536252_caneward03.html (1139 words)

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