Civil rights workers -- Louisiana

Content Description Collection consists solely of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file reports on various organizations and incidents in specific geographic areas: Louisiana Farmers Union, Communist Party of Louisiana, Southern Gentlemen, Deacons for Defense and Justice, Iberville Parish school desegregation, Citizens Council of Louisiana, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Louisiana, St. Helena Parish school desegregation, and of African Americans who were beaten while registering to vote in...

Scope and Contents The Adam Fairclough oral history collection contains three audiocassettes of interviews conducted by Dr. Adam Fairclough during his research period for his book Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Included is one cassette each of interviews with William Bailey, Sr. (President of the Bogalusa NAACP, 1950-72), Harvey R.H. Britton (Field Director of the NAACP in Louisiana), and James H. Henderson (President of the New Iberia...

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This small collection is made up of a single audiocassette of a January 1984 interview with Spiver Gordon, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who served in Plaquemine, Baton Rouge, and Monroe, Louisiana. The interviewer is unidentified. 45 minute recording, side 1 only.

Scope and Contents This collection contains twenty-four linear feet of correspondence, attorney and judicial files, organizational records, Ortique’s writings, collected research, and ephemeral materials.The papers of Revius Ortique Jr. primarily chronicle his professional life as a prominent African-American attorney and judge in New Orleans, Louisiana and as the first African-American judge elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court. Included in his papers are case files from his early...