Albert Domino oral history interview, 1996.

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Albert Domino oral history interview, 1996.

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The interview was conducted as Domino drove around the neighborhood in south Baton Rouge know as "the Bottoms," pointing out locations where important community businesses had been, including barber shops, grocery stores and eateries, churches, shoe shops, and music clubs. Domino discusses racial relationships, the reasons for decline in the businesses, and problems with integration. His observations show how the institutions of south Baton Rouge affected and influenced the community.

1 sound cassette (.75 hours);Transcript (39 p.)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158183

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Domino, Albert, 1924-

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Albert Domino was born in "the Bottoms," a south Baton Rouge, Louisiana neighborhood on 1 December 1924. Domino grew up with his parents, Benjamin Domino and Geraldine Warren, from Point Coupee Parish, and his five sisters (Madeline, Teresa, Ronnie, Avis, and Agnes) and brother (Alec). He attended the old McKinley High School on East Blvd. and lived in Baton Rouge until the age of eighteen when he joined the army. In 1946, he left the army and returned to Baton Rouge, where he found work at the ...

Henry, Rudolph.

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Goods, Michael

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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...