"My sister Martha Rean and her husband and child."
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This photograph was taken when they lived in the St. Bernard Housing Development before moving to Los Angeles. I joined them in California about a decade later when I attended Los Angeles City College. After moving to California, my brother-in-law worked for the Bethlehem Steel Company.
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Desire Neighborhood: Destroyed to build Desire Housing Development
As a former resident of the Desire neighborhood, I am taking the opportunity to defend the integrity of our African-American community in the Upper Ninth Ward. These photographs depict our neighborhood in the late 1940s, however humble it might…