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The period of détente in the Cold War saw the ratification of major disarmament treaties such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the creation of more symbolic pacts such as the Helsinki Accords. An ongoing debate among historians exists as to how successful the détente period was in achieving peace. [6] [7]
During the colonial period, New Orleans had developed three racial groups, as was typical of other French and Latin colonies: white, free persons of color (mixed race or gens de couleur libre), and enslaved black people. Robert Charles was classified as mixed-race (mulatto in the terms of the time) and his ancestors may have been free before ...
Displaced New Orleans residents at an Interstate 10 exit. August 31, 2005. African-American leaders and others have expressed outrage at what they see as the apparent neglect of the poor and/or black residents of the affected region. [101] Two-thirds of the residents of New Orleans are black, primarily attributed to decades of white flight.
The Native Guards were on duty and at their post when Federal ships arrived opposite New Orleans, April 25, 1862 [2] Approaches to New Orleans, Department of the Gulf Map Number 5, February 14, 1863. [3] The 1st Louisiana Native Guard was a Confederate Louisianan militia that consisted of Creoles of color.
Anticipating trouble, the mayor of New Orleans had asked the local military commander to police the city and protect the convention. The US Army failed to respond promptly to the mayor's request and a group of White residents attacked numerous unarmed Black residents, resulting in 38 deaths, 34 Black and four White, and more than 40 wounded ...
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
A cheerful night in New Orleans quickly became a nightmare for an Iowa couple after a truck plowed through a crowd of people, killing 14 and wounding dozens of others in what the FBI is calling an ...
Colonel Spencer Stafford, formerly Butler's military "mayor" of New Orleans, was the original white commander of the 1st Louisiana Native Guard. After Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks replaced Butler as Commander of the Department of the Gulf, he began a systematic campaign to purge all the black or colored line officers from the 1st, 2nd, and ...