Skip to main content
New Orleans Historical
ToursStoriesMap

Aftermath

ID: 1996

This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike

Wreckage of the Strikebreaker Car.

Mizell-Nelson Collection


This file appears in: 1929 Streetcar Strike

1929 Streetcar Strike

By Michael Mizell-Nelson
Following increasingly heated contract negotiations, New Orleans streetcar motormen and conductors struck beginning July 1, 1929. The survival of the carmen's union and 1,100 jobs was in question.…

Search

Navigation

  • Home
  • Stories
  • Tours
  • Map
  • About

Connect

Discover

View a Random Story

Download

App Store Google Play
This work is licensed by The Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at LSU New Orleans under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.
Powered by Omeka + Curatescape
Funding for technical support provided by anonymous donors in memory of the Samuelson, Wolfson, and Fertel families.