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This painting by Clementine Hunter was done in 1950. Hunter was a self-taught African American folk artist who lived and worked on the Melrose Plantation, a mecca for the arts. Her work depicts slave life in the early 20th century.

The elevated land is one way of providing protection from the tsunamis. The streets will remain the same level which will act as drainage zones for possible flooding.

The Lee monument was dedicated in 1884, and was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Legend has it that Lee faces north in order to always be facing his military adversaries.

The elevated land is one way of providing protection from the tsunamis. The streets will remain the same level which will act as drainage zones for possible flooding.

This graffiti reads "Black Lives Matter!!!"

The tsunami has not discourage locals from pursuing their interests such as a soccer, a local favorite sport.

This graffiti referencing the Ku Klux Klan is on the base of the Robert E. Lee Monument in Lee Circle. The monumuent has recently come under scrutiny in the city as it stands as a memorial to this Confederate General and defender of slavery, with…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

St. Augustine Catholic Church, in the Treme neightborhood, was established in 1841, as a church for free black citizens in New Orleans, but welcomed both free and slave worshipers. A few weeks before the church's dedication in 1842, blacks began…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.