Noland Lockett oral history interview, 1993.

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Noland Lockett oral history interview, 1993.

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Lockett discusses the logging industry at Four Corners; the origin and history of the Lockett clan; local sugar growing and the history, extent, and sale of South Coast Plantation; service by African Americans in the Korean War; debt peonage and the plantation store system; exodus from Four Corners area farms; race relations; his seminary experience; and plans for a private school in the area. Lockett recalls childhood memories of Mardi Gras; gambling and his father; three-card Kotch; recreation during childhood; the work ethic of his youth; self-provisioning of families; and social conditions of his community.

1 sound cassette (1.5 hours);Index (7 p.)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132710

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

LaCour-Patrick, Adrienne, 1954-

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Lockett, Noland, 1938-

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Resident of Four Corners, a community south of Franklin, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana. Lockett, the great-grandson of a migrant sugarcane worker from the Caribbean, was a building contractor and former associate dean of a junior college. From the description of Noland Lockett oral history interview, 1993. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244443356 ...