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==History==
==History==
Shreveport weathered the [[Great Depression]] better than most towns. The city's civic improvement projects, begun in the 1920s and completed by 1930, helped to sustain the optimistic view that prosperous times awaited. Transportation and educational improvements, supported by federal dollars, continued even in hard times. The Chamber of Commerce waged a publicity campaign to boost retail sales and project optimism. The Chamber also established a farmer's market and lobbied for state road funds. Construction at Barksdale Field, at the time the largest airfield in the world, began in 1931. Barksdale provided jobs and injected cash into the local economy.<ref>Tom R. Thomas, "A Look at Shreveport's Reaction to the Great Depression, 1929-1935," ''North Louisiana History'' 1995 26(4): 125-145.</ref>
Shreveport weathered the [[Great Depression]] better than most towns. The city's civic improvement projects, begun in the 1920s and completed by 1930, helped to sustain the optimistic view that prosperous times awaited. Transportation and educational improvements, supported by federal dollars, continued even in hard times. The Chamber of Commerce waged a publicity campaign to boost retail sales and project optimism. The Chamber also established a farmer's market and lobbied for state road funds. Construction at Barksdale Field, at the time the largest airfield in the world, began in 1931. Barksdale provided jobs and injected cash into the local economy.<ref>Tom R. Thomas, "A Look at Shreveport's Reaction to the Great Depression, 1929-1935," ''North Louisiana History'' 1995 26(4): 125-145.</ref>
At the city and parish government offices in downtown Shreveport sets the [[Caddo Parish Confederate Monument]], a 30-foot granite-and-marble structure likely to be dismantled or relocated pending a permanent decision in the United States District Court by Judge Robert G. James. The United Daughters of the Confederacy has claimed ownership of the parcel of land on which the monument sets, but Judge James said no real proof of the claim has been advanced. The removal will be another in a series of [[political correctness|politically correct]] decisions made by southern politicians seeking to apologize to their African-American communities for the Confederate rebellion in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2018/05/15/judges-refusal-block-statue-removal-stands/614029002/|title=Judge's refusal to block statue removal stands|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=May 15, 2018|accessdate=May 16, 2018}}</ref>
==Shreveport sports==
==Shreveport sports==