New Orleans Fumigation Crew 1939

ID: 3903 ~ Source: Photo Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/fighting.html

This file appears in: Algiers Immigrant Quarantine Detention Center

This file appears in: Algiers Immigrant Quarantine Detention Center

Algiers Immigrant Quarantine Detention Center

By Natalie Ducote & Benjamin Birdwhistell

Treatment and quarantine of newly arrived immigrants at ports around New Orleans were based on discriminatory ideologies and lead to the mistreatment of many people who arrived in this region from…