Various Topics
Information
Size: 96 interviews on 157 recordings
Dates of interviews: 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)
Access Restrictions: See individual abstracts
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.
Interview Abstracts
Edgar Aubert
Pamela K. Autrey
William Barth
Alvin Batiste
Lillian B. & Harold Bernard
Sam Bibbens
Jamie Billiot
Dorothy Coquille Blanchard & Nova Coquille
Dr. Bonch & Fran Ivey
Chantrelle Borne
Karen Boudreaux
Laura Brackin
Ernest Brooks
Chandra McCormick Calhoun & Keith Calhoun
George Christian
Mary Collins
Ann Cook
Richard Condrey
Molly Davis
Keith Ellison
James Farr
Sarah Ford
Ricki Garrett
Peter & Clara Gerica
Allen Green
Jan Guthrie
Eileen Hammatt
Noel Hammatt
L.J. Harelson
Willie Dee Hart
Derryl Haymon
Paul J. Henderson
Damon Hewitt
Al Hirt
Julius Hughes
Terry Jackson, Brenda Bass, Linda Clark
Louise M. Johnson
Sheleen P. Jones
Tanya Jones
Debra Joseph
Stacy Lacour
Ted Landry & Rebecca Saunders
Paul Lansky
Michele LeBlanc
Ella D. Lewis
Kay Long, Marsha Budz & Terry Fluke
Frank Louis
Marie Mamalakis
Doug Manship, Sr.
Yvonne Mariki
Janet McDonald
Robbie McHardy
Ian McHarg
Nathan Meggs, Jr.
Dorothy Daly Mitchell
Cecil Morgan
Dorothy Morgan
Lew Munson
Devereux Nobles & George Marshall IV
Joan Weil Oppenheim
Lillian B. Oubre
Cynthia Payton
Mr. & Mrs. Chester Peecher
Eric T. Reid
Lynn Richardson
Kevin Robbins
Leslie Saver
John Scott
Amy Slowey
Gayle Smith
Caroline Coates Spiller
Nicholas R. Spitzer
Nick Spitzer
Liza Jo Stelly
Hans Sternberg
Lou Ella Swearingen
A. Elizabeth Taylor
LaVada Taylor
A. Hays Town, Sr.
Sue Tyner
Berk Veillion
Christina Vella
Donna Washington
Katherine Watts
Susan Webre
Thomas Webre
Roena Wilford
Anna Williams
Frances Williams
Fonville Winans
Zeb White
Annie Zehyoue
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