INDEX Page numbers in bold indicate illustrations. A. J. Rife Construction Company, 159–60 Abbeville, 57 Addams, Jane, 12, 13, 272n4 African Americans, xv, 4, 13–14, 36, 53, 103; and higher education, 94, 96–97; Ickes’s actions in behalf of, 15–16; and Jim Crow laws, 122–23; job discrimination against, 61, 64; and public schools, 77, 85–88 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 10, 49 Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 165 Aldrich, W. R., 175 Alex Box Stadium, xx, 103 Alexandria, 35; L. S. Rugg Elementary school, ; swimming pool, 53, 60. See also Rapides Parish Courthouse Alexandria Town Talk, 121–22 Alferez, Enrique, 145–46, , 147 Alfred P. Tureaud Elementary School, 89, Alice in Wonderland, 24 Allaire, Alexander, 144 Allen, Oscar K. ‘‘O.K.,’’ 29, 30, 37, 139 Allen, Robert, 56, 67 Alumni Hall, 93 American City, 159 American Sugar Cane League, 163 Amite, 64–65 Amos and Andy, 29 Andrews, W. G., 184 Annie Boyd Hall, 65 Arizona, 181 291 Army Corps of Engineers, 54, 131 art deco, xxi, xxiv, xxv, 119, 181; courthouses , 110–14, , 116, , , ; public school buildings, 49, 78–80, , 88, ; university buildings, 95, , 100, , 101 Atkinson Hall, xx Audubon Sugar School, 162, 184 Avoca ferry, 53, Baker, John A., , Bannister, H. D., 174 Barksdale Field, 130–31 Baron and Roberts, , Barre, Vermont, xxii Barton, Vermont, xxii Bastrop, 131 Baton Rouge, xviii–xxi, 34, 36, 37, 41, 57, 61; Capitol Annex, xxiii, 49; Police Department (Louisiana State School for the Deaf), 84, ; Public Library (Capitol Area United Way), xix Bayou St. John, 170 Bell City, 78 Berle, Adolph, 51 Bernice, 48 Bethany Evangelical Church, 175 Biedenharn Hall, ‘‘big government,’’ 184 Blair, A. Farnell, 22 Blanco, Gov. Katherine Babineaux, 171 Bodman and Murrell, xxiv, Bogard Hall, 99 Bois Courier, Bayou, 131 292 INDEX Bond and Tax Board, 38, 46, 141, 173 Bonita, 78 Bossier City High School, xxix, 71, 78, 86–87 Bradford Hall, Brass, Edward, 22 Broussard, Edmund, 32 Broussard Hall, Brown, Harry M., 144 Brown, REI Horace R., 65, 66 Brezner, Barnet, 67 Building ‘‘G,’’ 57 Bulber Auditorium, Bulger, Arthur J., 77 Bull, George, 96 Bunkie, 183 Burdick, Rep. Usher, 46 Burk, William R., , Burns, H. E., 159–60 Cabot, Vermont, xxii Caddo Parish, 85 Café du Monde, 155 Calcasieu Parish, 94, 167, Calcasieu River, 167 Caldwell, George, 56, 57–58 Caldwell, Summerfield ‘‘Summa,’’ 57, 67 Caldwell, Tom, 57 Caldwell, Vernon, 57 Caldwell Brothers and Hart, 57, 58, 65, 67 Caldwell Parish Courthouse, 61, Camelia, lighthouse tenders in, 131 Cameron Parish Courthouse, 21, 49, 109, , 113, 116 Campbell Hall, Canal Street, 176 canning, 75 Capitol Annex, xx, xxiii, 49 Carlin, Bayou, 131 Carmody, John, 54 Carter, Special Agent Gilbert B., 147 Carter, Hodding, 33, 35, 36 Carville (Gillis Long Hansen’s Disease Center), 133–37, , Catchings, Waddill, 52 Chalmette battlefield, 132 Charity Hospital, 138–48, , , Chicago, Illinois, xxiv–xxv; Ashland Ave. Bridge, xxiv; Cook County Hospital, xxiv; DuSable High School, xxiv; Lake Michigan shoreline, xxiv; Outer Drive Bridge, xxiv, xxv; sewage system, 167 Christy, Edgar A., , ‘‘chronological connectivity,’’ 117–18 Citadel, 180 Civil Works Administration (CWA), 6, 25, 27, 54, 93, 130, 172 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), xxii, 5–6, 11, 16, 25, 26, 45, 181, 270n11 Clayton, 78 Clinton, 87 Coates, Charles E., 163, 164 Collier, John, 13 colonialization of the Southern economy, 10 Columbia, Como Park Zoo, xxi Concordia Parish, 109 Corondelet Canal, 170 Country Life Movement, 4, 74 Coushatta, 86, Covington, 48, 87 Cross, Hardy, 144 Crowell, REI C. L., 174 Crutcher, Joseph H., 46 Cyr, Paul, 30 Dallas, Texas, 181 Danziger, Alfred, 139–40 Davis, P. M., 21–22 Dear, Cleveland, 32, 45 ‘‘dee ducts,’’ 145 Desoto Parish, 72, 75, 76 Drainage Commission, 171 Drew, Harmon, 34 Duncan, Herman J., Earl, George G., 171 Early, Harry J., 32, 38, 46 [54.172.95.106] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 08:04 GMT) INDEX 293 East Carroll Parish, 110 East Point, 86 Eccles, Marriner, 52 Ellender, Allen, 139 Emergency Relief and Construction Act, 5, 172 Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935, 25, 38 Employment Stabilization Act of 1931, 129 Evangeline Hall, 94 Fall, Albert, 21 Farley, James, 28, 32–33, 46 Farm Security Administration, 6, 11, 26, 30, 32 Farnsworth and Company, 126 Favrot and Reed, xix, Fechner, Robert, 6, 8 Federal Emergency Relief Administration , 6 Federal Housing Administration, 8, 111, 157 federalism: cooperative, 5, 123; dual, 5 Fernandez, J. O., 164 Fleming, Major General Philip B., 36, 54 Ford, John M., 159 Fort Knox, Kentucky, Gold Depository, 180 Fort Necessity...