McKinley High School Oral History Project
Size: 210 interviews on 228 recordings
Time period covered: 1920s - 2000s
Dates of interviews: 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)
Access Restrictions: See individual abstracts
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.
Interview Abstracts
Joseph A. Delpit
Donald Lee Harris
Eula Mae Hatter
Louise Payne Haynes
Shawnda Hollins
Clarence Jones
Virtel T. Jones
Catherine Carter Kraft and Maude Ann Kraft Miller
Edward Pratt
Patricia Ann Monget Richard
Isadore Tansil
Dyon Brown
Dyon Brown, James Washington, Eddie Johnson, Jr.
Estelle Elayne Butler Bryant and Hedi Butler
Robert Gordon Buffington
Peggy Goods
Donald Lee Harris
Ronald L. Hatter
Alton E. Ingram
Theodore J. Jemison
Mary L. Johnson
Mandy L. Jones
Lionel Lee, Sr.
Melvin Sambo, Sr.
Mabel C. Scott
James Washington
Earl Wheeler, Sr.
Marcus Babaoye
Frank Bowers
Carolyn Brown
Betty Camble and Leslie Coates
Almenia Freeman
Hazel J.P. Freeman (by Rose Joubert-Thompson)
Hazel J.P. Freeman (by Helen Haw)
John Ralph Gray, Jr.
Louise Payne Haynes
Mary Alice Heard
Annie Mae Holmes
Shanta Jenkins
Eddie Johnson, Jr.
Beatrice Jones
Jennifer Jones
Sarah Jones
Annie Kimble
Lionel Lee, Sr.
Fred C. Matthews, Jr. and Melvin Sambo
Sadie Keel
Mary Whitley Moss
Franklin Nwagbara
Betty Parker
Brenda and Isaac Patterson, Jr.
Huel D. Perkins
Leo Perkins
Julia B. Purnell
Boyd Remo
Melba Stewart Simmons
Charles T. Smith
Eula Vercher Smith
Donald R. Sterling
Ida Mae Whiten
Almenia Williams
Roger C. Williams
Rosella Williams
Willie Mae Williams
Dupuy Henry Anderson (by Dawn Wallace)
Dupuy Henry Anderson (by Courtney Zachary)
Cornelius Betz, Jr.
V. Jean Butler
Joseph A. Delpit
Joanna F. Dillon
George Washington Eames
Geraldine Freeman Ellis
Almenia Freeman
Mary Mason Gordon
Freddie Greene
Tony Joseph Hall
Eula Mae Hatter
Isabel M. Herson
Eddie Johnson
Johnnie A. Jones, Sr.
Chester Laborde
Eva Legard
Fred C.Matthews, Jr.
Mary Edith Moody (by Catherine Martin)
Mary Edith Moody (by Amy Horn)
Nina Nichols Pugh
Willis V. Reed, Sr. (by Emily Smith)
Willis V. Reed, Sr. (by Rashada Jenkins)
Willie Spooner, Jr.
Isadore E. Tansil, Sr.
John H. Thomas III
Horatio Thompson
Patricia E. Baranco
Josephine C. Bonfanti
Reginald R. Brown
Wilbert Brown, Johnny Brown, Debra George
Edmae LaMotte Delpit Butler
Barbara West Carpenter
Inez W. Chrisentery
Cleo Fields
Louise Payne Haynes
Randell Henry
Olivia C. Huey
Joseph A. Hutchinson
Charles A. Jones, Sr.
Dorothy Mae Walter Jones
Harriett M. Jones
Johnnie A. Jones, Sr. (by Beth Smith)
Johnnie A. Jones, Sr. (by Nicholas Ng-a-Fook)
Earl Dean Joseph
Earl Marcelle
Jean Q. Perkins
Willis V. Reed, Sr.
Sadie Roberts-Joseph and Wilhelmenia Thompson
Michael A. Smith
Patricia Smith and Gwen Hamilton
Isadore E. Tansil, Sr.
Kathlen (Kathy) Cascio Wink
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