The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

LSU-Shreveport oral history collection

Repository: Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Archives and Special Collections

Collection Description (CRHP): Interviewees discuss the Klan, race relations in Shreveport, labor relations, Huey P. Long, Judge John Wisdom, busing, desegregation, Dixiecrats, White Citizens' Councils, civil rights legislation, and the Shreveport Journal newspaper.

Date(s): 1976-1983

Digital Status: Yes

Finding Aid: Finding Aid available at repository.

Language: English

Interviewees: Charles Beaird, Henry William Bethard III, Charlie L. Black, Ben C. Dawkins, Don Ewing, Jim Gardner, Alvin Kessler, Henry Meyer, Myrtle Pickering, Willie Rainach, George Shannon, Elliot Stonecipher, Roscoe White, Scott Wilkinson, Marie Gifford Wright

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

Subjects:

Busing for school integration--Louisiana
Civil rights movements--Louisiana
Civil rights--Cases
Judges
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Louisiana--Race relations
White Citizens councils
Whites--Louisiana
Wisdom, John Minor, 1905-1999

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts