Streets of Justice? Civil Rights Commemorative Boulevards and the Struggle for Revitalization in African American Communities: A Case Study of Central City, New Orleans

Civil rights commemorative boulevards are an increasingly important method of framing African American community revitalization and persistent historical inequities. Often underlying planning efforts to revitalize segregated African American neighborhoods, these boulevards are one important change mechanism for realizing equitable development and challenging structural racism. This thesis demonstrates the central importance of these commemorative boulevards in framing redevelopment and maintaining community resolve during the long struggle for revitalization

Name thesis:degree_name

M.U.R.P.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Planning and Urban Studies

Year

2011

Author dc:creator

• Devalcourt, Joel A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nelson, Marla
• Ehrenfeucht, Renia
• Amdal, James

• New Orleans Civil Rights Movement
• civil rights commemoration
• revitalization
• urban planning
• structural racism
• urban history
• Martin Luther King
• Jr. Boulevards
• community-based planning
• redlining
• racial zoning
• public housing
• African American commercial districts

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1303

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2287