Kerry Pourciau: Well, I think just, you know, looking at racism squarely in the face for what it was, you know: legions of fraternal organizations that didn't accept blacks, a football team that had actually not had its first black football player by that time. So I was to help usher in, truly, a new era here. To this day, my best friend is the first recruit . . . first black recruit to the LSU football team. That was well over twenty-years ago, Lora Hinton. So, I was there and I . . . One thing that I remember about the white kids is that they were open, they were ready, that . . . That Lora walked around as a . . . some god, you know. I mean, and was just so socially advanced anyway that it was a piece of cake for him, really.
Maxine Crump: Well, the history of LSU, '69 was one of the best years that you could have come, as far as the environment on campus. A lot of movement had taken place in '68, so you walked into a little bit more openness in the environment.
Pourciau: Well, I did.
-- Kerry Pourciau, interviewed by Maxine Crump, 1994