![]() Very few of them have time for classes at Wisdom Hall. While Channel men toil daily to make a living wage, many of the Channel girls and women are forced to prostitute themselves to stay alive. Huddled along the Mississippi River just south of Canal Street, the Irish Channel is home to the city’s struggling Irish and German immigrants. ![]() There, she takes a job teaching typewriting and business classes at the grand, new Wisdom Hall settlement house. The daughter of a recently-deceased lawyer, she yearns to be a lawyer too, but her poverty forces her to live and work in the rough Irish Channel neighborhood. Twenty-five year old Fanny Newcomb is proud to hope and work for a more enlightened New Orleans. ![]() Twenty years after the devastating Civil War, the city of New Orleans teeters on a dangerous social precipice: Will it succumb to the poisonous influence of gamblers, prostitutes, murderers, and pornographers? Or will it claim a bright future built upon the high ideals of education, culture, and political justice? ![]()
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