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Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Call Number: CD 840Format: DVDProducers: California NewsreelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Faubourg Treme is considered the oldest black neighborhood in America, the origin of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and the birthplace of jazz. The completed film uncovers Treme’s unique and hidden history and situates it within three centuries of African American struggle - from slavery through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights, to the recent threat of Hurricane Katrina.
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