Review of Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008) by Cli O — 07 Oct 2008

While this is, on its face, a history of one neighborhood in New Orleans, Faubourg Treme tells a much bigger story. Treme was home to the largest number of free people of color in the Deep South, and was also home to the first black daily newspaper in the United States.

The famous Plessy vs. Ferguson case came out of Treme, as did a new kind of music -- Jazz. The film goes on to show the devastation to the community caused by the urban renewal in the 1960s, drugs in the 1980s, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Highly recommended.