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Interview Information
Interviewee
Dr. Alvin Decuir & Felton Crockett
Series
Civil Rights Series
Series Information
Description
These interviews document the Civil Rights Movement in Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes. Topics include the experience of African Americans in Baton Rouge during the period of segregation, the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953, sit-ins in the1960s, Baton Rouge's Biracial Committee, the desegregation of schools and public facilities, voter registration, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in rural parishes.
Size
53 interviews on 107 recordings
Time Period Covered
1930s - 1970s
Date
1993 - 2003
Principal Interviewers
Greta de Jong, Mary Hebert, Miranda Kombert, Marc Sternberg
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
11% of interviews are cataloged (6 of 53)

This interview is currently unprocessed.
Oral History Dr. Bonch & Fran Ivey
Interview Information
Interviewee
Dr. Bonch & Fran Ivey
Series
Various Topics
Series Information
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.
Interview Information
Interviewee
Dr. Frank Minyard
Series
Voices in the Storm: Hurricane Katrina Survivors in Pointe Coupee Parish
Series Information
Description
These interviews were sponsored by the Julien Poydras Museum and Arts Council and were conducted in 2007, just two years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans residents who relocated to Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, after Katrina discuss their unique perspectives and experiences of the storm, recount their struggles with evacuating, displacement, loss, and dealing with the state and federal systems in place such as FEMA, the Red Cross, and the Louisiana Recovery Authority. Interviewees speak of their lives after the hurricane in Pointe Coupee Parish, and how they started over, developed a new sense of community, and regained stability.
Size
9 interviews on 9 recordings
Time Period Covered
2005 - 2007
Date
2007
Principal Interviewers
Blanche Jewell, Myrna Matherne, Mary Price, Jennifer Abraham, Betty Wooddy, Angie Juban
Finding Aids
Abstracts
Oral History Dr. James E. LaNasa
Interview Information
Interviewee
Dr. James E. LaNasa
Series
United Houma Nation
Series Information
Description
This collection records the experiences of members of the United Houma Nation (UHN) of Southern Louisiana during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The interviewees lived in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but the dialogues also address issues dating back over one hundred before the interviews took place. Not all interviewees in the series are members of the UHN; some are Euro-Americans who worked with, taught, or interacted with the UHN, while others are members of separate Indian groups who lived in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes. Nevertheless, the oral testimonies of those interviewed reflect social and economic conditions of southern Louisiana as they affected (and continue to affect) Native Americans in general and the UHN in particular. All interviews were conducted by Daniel d'Oney for research on his dissertation. Further interviews took place to turn the dissertation into a monograph.
Size
22 interviews on 38 recordings
Date
1996, 1997, 2003, 2009, 2010
Principal Interviewers
Daniel D'Oney
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
Unprocessed collection; see note below

This interview is currently unprocessed.
Interview Information
Interviewee
Dr. Kenneth Klaus
Series
Louisiana Sea Grant Coastal Change Oral Histories Project
Subseries
Thibodaux High School
Series Information
Description
Louisiana's coast is washing away at an alarming rate, and as the land disappears, residents are effected economically and culturally. In 2012, Louisiana Sea Grant partnered with the Williams Center and implemented an oral history project in which high school students in South Louisiana recorded information on coastal change and explored the implications of this change on their communities. One primary goal of the project, beyond creating primary resources documenting this phenomenon, was to increase environmental literacy among students who live in communities at risk and to engage them in a stewardship project that would help them interact with community elders through the use of oral history.
Size
20 interviews on 20 recordings
Time Period Covered
1920s - 2010s
Date
20,122,013
Finding Aids
Abstracts, indexes
Audio Availability
MP3
Processing Status
All interviews are cataloged
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