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The Ninth Ward or 9th Ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana, which is located in the easternmost downriver portion of the city. It is geographically the largest of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. On the south, the Ninth Ward is bounded by the Mississippi River.
The 9th Ward, like all wards of New Orleans, is a voting district. The 9th Ward was added as a voting district in 1852. [1] The Lower 9th Ward is composed of Ward 9 Districts 1, 2, 4, and 7 which make up the Holy Cross Area and Ward 9 Districts 3, 5, 6, and 8.
Map shows the 17 wards of New Orleans.Not shown: southern portion of the 15th Ward, northeastern portion of the 9th Ward.On the map Lake Pontchartrain is to the north and the Mississippi River is to the south; the 15th Ward is the only one south of the Mississippi River where Algiers is located.
Dr. King Charter School, full name Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology, [1] is a K–12 charter school, [2] in the Lower 9th Ward, in the 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is the only public high school located in the Lower 9th Ward. [3]
Some New Orleans residents and city officials are pushing back against tour operators who bus out-of-towners into the city's Lower 9th Ward, where Hurricane Katrina unleashed a wall of water when ...
Musicians' Village is a neighborhood located in the Upper Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.Musicians Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis teamed up with Habitat for Humanity International and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to create the village for New Orleans musicians who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.
Bywater is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Florida Avenue to the north, the Industrial Canal to the east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the west.
The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was a period of intense ... desegregation happened in significantly more impoverished schools in the Lower Ninth Ward. [9]