The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Oral history collections

Repository: Southeastern Louisiana University. Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies and Archives

Collection Description (CRHP): Interview topics include African American history, churches, and civil rights marches in southeast Louisiana. The interview with Rovan W. Stanley Sr. was used by Greta de Jong in "A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970" (2002).

Collection URL: http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/programs/csls/historical_collections/oral_history_collect/index.html

Language: English

Interviewees: Rovan W. Stanley, Sr., Margaret Johnson, Rev. Wallace Magee, Edna Bean, Hattie Thomas, Creole Anderson, Esterlee V. Spain, Willie Grant Jackson, Mrs. Willie Grant Jackson, Rovan W. Stanley, Rovan W. Stanley, Sr., Emma Route, Tom Stewart, Mrs. W. M. G. Johnson

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African American churches
African Americans--Louisiana
Civil rights movements--Louisiana

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts