The New Basin Canal was built primarily by immigrant Irish workers.

ID: 6310 ~ Source: New Basin Canal near South Liberty Street, 22 November 1898, The Historic New Orleans, Permanent Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/29220.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

The New Basin Canal was built primarily by immigrant Irish workers.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an educational component to give context to the changes…