2K views · 18 reactions | Throughout 1960 and ’61, demonstrators protested unequal hiring practices and services for African-Americans at Canal Street businesses. Dr. Raphael Cassimere Jr., then a leader of the local NAACP Youth Council, recalls these efforts. For more videos, visit https://www.hnoc.org/research/nola-resistance-oral-history-project | The Historic New Orleans Collection | Facebook

😳 Canal Street in NYC used to be an actual Canal and one of the most polluted bodies of water… Edited by Maria-Elpida Keridu | Urbanist Ariel