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Texas avoided any direct damage from Hurricane Katrina, but the state took in an estimated 220,000 people who sought refuge from Louisiana. On August 31, the Harris County, Texas Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the State of Louisiana came to an agreement to allow at least 25,000 evacuees from New Orleans, especially those who were sheltered in the Louisiana ...
Among the voyages of the General S. D. Sturgis transporting displaced persons from Bremerhaven, Germany was an arrival in New York on 7 August 1951; on 11 September 1951 it docked to Pier 21 in Halifax, Canada; and on 11 October 1951, it reached New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. with around 1,300 displaced persons. As war broke out in Korea ...
As a result of the damage inflicted by Katrina, over one million people were internally displaced. One month after the disaster, over 600,000 remained displaced. Immediately following the disaster, New Orleans lost approximately half of its population, with many residents displaced to cities such as Houston, Dallas, Baton Rouge, and Atlanta.
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 Union commissioned several African-American line officers of the Guard. Former Confederate Lt. Andre Cailloux, a Creole of color (free man of color) in New Orleans, was named captain of Company E. P. B. S. Pinchback, also a free man of color, was appointed as captain of Company A, and later was reassigned as company commander of the 2nd ...
Critics argue the relocations to the center are a Band-Aid solution. In a letter sent to the governor from 12 community organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana ...
Sweeps to displace homeless people in New Orleans began this week, local media reported. An encampment of roughly 75 people were moved a couple blocks away. Louisiana State Police (LSP), in ...
The first DPs brought to the US under the Act arrived in New York City on October 30, 1948, crossing from Bremerhaven, Germany on the Army transport ship General Black. The ship carried 813 displaced persons from eleven nations, including 388 Poles, 168 Lithuanians, 53 Czechoslovaks, 32 Latvians, 17 Ukrainians and 6 Hungarians.