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Interviewee
Belonie Scioneaux
Series
Bayou Lafourche Oral History Project
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Description
Dr. Mike Pasquier partnered with the Williams Center on this project, and also with LSU's Coastal Sustainability Studio, and Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) program. Pasquier's goal is to use these interviews to garner a better understanding of how the culture of south Louisiana is being affected by wetland loss. Interviewees from Lockport, Thibodaux, Cut Off, and other towns discuss growing up in Golden Meadow, the role of religion and local churches, careers in sugar cane farming, paper milling, and the oil and gas business, fishing and hunting, the changing landscape of the bayou, local plantations, and many other topics.
Size
21 interviews on 21 recordings
Time Period Covered
1920s - 2010
Date
2010
Finding Aids
Abstracts, indexes
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
All interviews are cataloged
Oral History
Ben Williams
Interview Information
Interviewee
Ben Williams
Series
Military Series
Description
This ongoing interview series documents Louisiana's military tradition and focuses primarily on World War II. Veterans of the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars are also interviewed.
Size
75 interviews on 116 recordings
Time Period Covered
1930s - 1970s
Date
1992 - present
Principal Interviewers
John Capdeveille, Jack Fiser, Adele Foster, Mary Hebert, Peter Soderbergh, Tara Zachary, Jennifer Abraham, Matt Mullenix
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
17% of interviews are cataloged (13 of 75)
This interview is currently unprocessed.
Interviewee
Benjamin S. Goebel
Series
Americans in Vietnam
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Description
LSU Professor Beatrice Spade and students conducted these interviews with American servicemen and a few Vietnamese civilians living in America. The interviewees discuss their experiences in Vietnam and their attitudes toward American involvement in Southeast Asia. In addition, the soldiers, representing a variety of ranks and all branches of the military, discuss their military training and contact with the Vietnamese people and their culture, and the civilians relate their background and the experience of immigrating to the United States.
Size
60 interviews on 77 recordings
Time Period Covered
1963 - 1975
Date
1974 - 1977
Principal Interviewers
John Davis, Mike Humphreys, Dudley Meier, Paul Moore, Robert Talley, Dale Jenkins and Bailey Vinson
Finding Aids
Abstracts, indexes
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
All interviews are cataloged
Oral History
Berk Veillion
Interview Information
Interviewee
Berk Veillion
Series
Various Topics
Description
These primarily biographical and regional history interviews were conducted by LSU faculty and students, by Williams Center staff under contract for interviewees' families, or were donated to the Williams Center. In addition to family history and genealogy, topics covered include: the Association for Women Historians, Lansdowne Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, the New Llano Cooperative Colony near Leesville, Louisiana, Williams Plantation, architecture, landscape architecture, hurricanes, Mardi Gras celebrations, Louisiana fisheries, the sugarcane industry, Native American and African American artists, New Orleans history and music, and topics of international interest such as the Mexican Revolution and Nazi propaganda films.
Size
96 interviews on 157 recordings
Date
1970s - present
Principal Interviewers
Pamela Dean, David Culbert, Helen Peterson, Kathleen Kearns, Susan Tittlebaum, Shelly Wells, Tayari Kwa Salaam, Harriet Walker, Ruth Laney, Mary Hebert Price, Jennifer Abraham
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
4% of interviews are cataloged (4 of 96)
This interview is currently unprocessed.
Interviewee
Bernestine B. McGee
Series
McKinley High School Oral History Project
Subseries
Social Organizations
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Description
McKinley High School students, with the assistance of faculty and students from LSU's College of Education, conducted interviews focusing on the African American experience in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In1995, students began interviewing community members on the history of McKinley High School, established in 1926 as the first high school for African American students in Baton Rouge. The interviews continued in subsequent years, focusing on African American businesses during the period of segregation, the history and role of African American churches, the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, and African American social organizations.
Size
210 interviews on 228 recordings
Time Period Covered
1920s - 2000s
Date
1995-1998, 2002, 2005, 2006
Principal Interviewers
Beau Bogart, Nedra Carter, Khary Carrell, Michael Goods, Shawnte Green, Helen Haw, Melvin Heard, Rudolph Henry, Benny Hester, Shawnda Hollins, Paula Jacobi, Shanta Jenkins, Rahshada Jenkins, Veonetta Jewell, Roderick Jones, Chastity Lovely, Heidi McGee, Toni Morrison, Carmen Posey, Tayari Kwa Salaam, Lavada Taylor, Rose Thompson, Katina Welsh
Finding Aids
Abstracts, indexes
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
33% of interviews are cataloged (70 of 210)
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