Canal Street

I have gotten around.

I've been cruising on Canal Street, you know.

Oh, honey, you get off Canal Street.

Miss Canal Street is no good.

You should get on Miss Royal or Miss Bourbon.

You should get a personality bar.

So that if, you could actually move the sign closer to the front of the bus if there were no white people who were sitting behind it.

But there's all kinds of stuff like that, right? I mean, in fact, I was just thinking about this, I mean, last time I was down there, like there was a, One, yeah, so there were like four movie theaters downtown on Canal Street on the main drag.

It was in about a block and a half of each other.

Two of them did not admit blacks at all.

The next day, Oswald came back and left a Marine Corps manual for him.

A few days later, some of Brunier's friends saw that same young man on Canal Street handing out leaflets for the Fair Play for Cuba committee.

That's a pro-Castro group.

So the man who'd offered to train Castro's enemies was now out on the street supporting Castro.

Their objective was to rewrite the state constitution to eliminate the black codes and restore voting rights to black men.

On July 30th, 1866, a peaceful procession of roughly 200 black marchers, including many unarmed Union Army veterans, paraded down Canal Street toward the Mechanics Institute to show solidarity with the convention.

a premeditated massacre.

White Democrats, ex-Confederate soldiers, and white supremacists viewed the convention as illegal and feared a shift in political power.

And the place to go, it was Claiborne Avenue in Treme.

I would say take it all the way down close to Canal Street.

And that's where our Mardi Gras was at.

We'd park cars, and my grandmother would make donuts, and my mama would fry chicken.

flambeau crew that was just going to walk down Bourbon Street and pass out beats.

But this was a full-on, this was on the scale of a Mardi Gras parade.

I rode in Orpheus for many years, and the crowds were as big as that on Canal Street.

I mean, this was going on.

Let's take a look at the roads.

We have reports of a crash on Canal Street at South Carrollton Avenue.

Another accident on Magnolia Street at General Pershing Street.

Slow-moving traffic on Crescent City Connection eastbound between Greater New Orleans Bridge and Earhart Boulevard.