(Mss
284)
Inventory
Earl K.
Long Library
1996
Contents
Summary
Container
List
Index
Terms
Procedures
for Requesting Special Collections Materials
Summary
Size: 1 box
Geographic
locations:
Inclusive dates: 1984, 1996
Summary: Audiocassette
copies of interviews with members of the
Related
collections: Judge John Minor Wisdom Collection (Mss 197)
Source: Collection
created by Beatrice Rodriguez Owsley, Archivist, 1996
Access: No restrictions
.
Copyright: Physical
rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library,
Citation:
Container List
Interviewed
by unidentified interviewer
Tape
1 of 2, includes childhood reminiscences; New Orleans politics, World War II to
the 1970s; participation in Friends of New Orleans Public Library, League of
Women Voters, Urban League; Flint-Goodrich Hospital; United Fund; construction
of Pontchartrain Park subdivision; desegregation of New Orleans Public Schools;
Xavier University.
Tape 2 of 2, side 1,
Interviewed
by Beatrice Rodriguez Owsley. January
12, January 18,
Tape
1 of 1, side 1, January 12. Family
background; education; early law career; link between Charleston, New Orleans
and Savannah; free people of color; marriage to Bonnie Wisdom and background of
wife's family.
Tape
1 of 1, side 2. Wife's interests, their
son and daughter; WWII Service; Schwegmann v Calvert Distillers;
Louisiana Constitution of 1898; Democratic Party primaries in Louisiana; work
in presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Tape
1 of 2, side 1, January 18. Republican
party in
Tape
1 of 2, side 2. Brown v Board of
Education; Labat v Bennett; remarks on civil rights; threats to family;
awards received by family; 5th District Court majority opinion in favor of
James Meredith; Mississippi and civil rights; work in Children's Bureau and
Protestant Home for Babies.
Tape
2 of 2, side 1. Awards received;
Tape
1 of 1, side 1, January 24. Additional details
on his work in the Republican Party in
Index Terms
Keller, Rosa
Owsley, Beatrice Rodriguez
Republican Party in
Wisdom, Bonnie
Wisdom, John Minor