Civil Rights Series
Information
Size: 53 interviews on 107 recordings
Time period covered: 1930s - 1970s
Dates of interviews: 1993 - 2003
Principal Interviewers: Greta de Jong, Mary Hebert, Miranda Kombert, Marc Sternberg
Finding Aids: Abstracts
Processing Status: 11% of interviews are cataloged (6 of 53)
Audio Availability: MP3
Access Restrictions: See individual abstracts
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.
Interview Abstracts
Robert Aertker
Dupuy Anderson
W.K. Brooks
Catherine Brown
Harrison Brown
Paul Burns
Janell Crosslin
Dr. Alvin Decuir & Felton Crockett
Ralph Dreger (by Betty Morse)
Ralph Dreger (by Jennifer Abraham)
B. Valdean Dykes
John Gerbrecht
Wilbert Guillory
Clifton Hall & Eual Hall
John Henry Hall
Lawrence Hall
Lorin E. Hall
Eunice Hall Harris
Janette Houston Harris
Helen Haw
J.K. Haynes
Donald Hoover
Evageline Hughes
Theodore Judson (T. J.) Jemison
Kenneth Johnson
Lana Parham Lathan
Robert & Essie Mae Lewis
Martha Mikell
Freddie Millican
Leon Netterville
Kenneth Olivier
George Raby
Willis V. Reed, Sr. (by Mark Sternberg)
Willis V. Reed, Sr. (by Mary Hebert)
Willis V. Reed, Sr. (by Miranda Kombert)
Joyce Robinson (by Doug Davis)
Charles T. Smith
Ida Stephens
Jack Stockeld
Charles Leon Thomas
Cole Thompson
Horatio Thompson
Jack Wartelle
Marion White
Gus Williams
Martin Williams
Moses Williams, Sr.
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